A render experiment with pov 64 for windows. A few
days of render, 2GB of photons. I also have a desktop
size version (1600x1200) just ask if you want it.

Best,

	S.


Steven Pigeon, Ph.D.
ste### [at] videotronca

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Beautiful.

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Steven Pigeon wrote:
> 
> 
> A render experiment with pov 64 for windows. A few
> days of render, 2GB of photons. I also have a desktop
> size version (1600x1200) just ask if you want it.
> 

Nice.
On what machine did you render this?

Sebastian

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AMD Athlon x64 4000+, nvidia 4 chipset, 2GB of 400MHz DDR
ram. It's my new toy. I've toyed with the setting until I
filled RAM without going too much over.

I think it might be nice if one could parameterize the
number of photons using a target memory capacity instead
of counts or density. Some kind of "shoot me for 1.5GB"
setting.


Sebastian H. wrote:
> Steven Pigeon wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> A render experiment with pov 64 for windows. A few
>> days of render, 2GB of photons. I also have a desktop
>> size version (1600x1200) just ask if you want it.
>>
> 
> Nice.
> On what machine did you render this?
> 
> Sebastian

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> AMD Athlon x64 4000+, nvidia 4 chipset, 2GB of 400MHz DDR
> ram. It's my new toy. I've toyed with the setting until I
> filled RAM without going too much over.

That's a damn fine machine. I was going to get a 4000+ my self - but it 
was, like, 3x the price of most of the rest. :-S

OOC, which OS?

> I think it might be nice if one could parameterize the
> number of photons using a target memory capacity instead
> of counts or density. Some kind of "shoot me for 1.5GB"
> setting.

Well, I suppose if you rigure out how much memory 1 photon uses, that 
would tell you what "count" setting to use... (You wanna check how much 
RAM is *free* when you do this.)

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dispersion_samples = *runs away screaming*


No wonder it took a few days...

Looks pretty cool though.

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Orchid XP v2 wrote:
>> AMD Athlon x64 4000+, nvidia 4 chipset, 2GB of 400MHz DDR
>> ram. It's my new toy. I've toyed with the setting until I
>> filled RAM without going too much over.
> 
> 
> That's a damn fine machine. I was going to get a 4000+ my self - but it 
> was, like, 3x the price of most of the rest. :-S
> 
> OOC, which OS?

For now, xp x64 pro. Probably won't last. Probably will install
some x64 linux distribution, still haven't decided which. Installing
XP on this box was a quick fix to get it up and working.

> Well, I suppose if you rigure out how much memory 1 photon uses, that 
> would tell you what "count" setting to use... (You wanna check how much 
> RAM is *free* when you do this.)

No, no, I meant that povray should distribute photons adaptatively on
its own, until it reaches the target memory capacity. As of now, 
specifying density is much of guesswork; and count is hard to relate to 
density.

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Orchid XP v2 wrote:
> dispersion_samples = *runs away screaming*
> 
> 
> No wonder it took a few days...
> 
> Looks pretty cool though.

dispersion_samples = 75

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very nice.
I am interested in your high res version.

K

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> A render experiment with pov 64 for windows. A few
> days of render, 2GB of photons. I also have a desktop
> size version (1600x1200) just ask if you want it.
>
> Best,
>
> S.
>
>
> Steven Pigeon, Ph.D.
> ste### [at] videotronca
>
>


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Steven Pigeon wrote:
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> 
> A render experiment with pov 64 for windows. A few
> days of render, 2GB of photons. I also have a desktop
> size version (1600x1200) just ask if you want it.
> 
> Best,
> 
>     S.
> 
> 
> Steven Pigeon, Ph.D.
> ste### [at] videotronca
> 
> 
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Wicked picture but the title make me curious.  I understand that plato
refers to the platonic solids ... but why "tyranny"?


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