Quick!  Someone write a port of POV for Blue Gene/C!
You have, let's see, 5 years?
http://dailynews.netscape.com/mynsnews/story.tmpl?
table=n&cat=50580&id=200111090045000231472

...is 1000 teraflops enough for real-time raytracing? ;)
-- 
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.scifi-fantasy.com

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"Timothy R. Cook" wrote:
> ...is 1000 teraflops enough for real-time raytracing? ;)

Speaking of, where can I get a program to determine my own
computer's flops rating?
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Tim Cook
http://empyrean.scifi-fantasy.com

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Oooo, I understand now...
I always wondered how God made the universe.. :-P

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//Mahalis
camera{location<0,0.25,-2> look_at 0.5*y} #declare T=texture{pigment{crackle
scale 0.5 rotate 90 turbulence 0.75 color_map{[0 rgb 1][0.05 rgb 1][0.1
rgb<1,0.25,1>][0.25 rgbf 1][1 rgbf 1]}} finish{ambient 1}} #declare
c=difference{torus{0.5,0.1 rotate -90*x}box{<0.7,0,0.2>,<-0.7,-0.7,-0.2>}}
merge{object{c translate<0.5,0.5,0>} object{c translate<-0.5,0.5,0>}
cylinder{<1,0.5,0>,<1,0,0>,0.1} cylinder{<-1,0.5,0>,<-1,0,0>,0.1}
cylinder{0.5*y,0,0.1} texture{T}}
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"Timothy R. Cook" <tim### [at] scifi-fantasycom> wrote in message
news:3BEB9852.5F774009@scifi-fantasy.com...
> Quick!  Someone write a port of POV for Blue Gene/C!
> You have, let's see, 5 years?
> http://dailynews.netscape.com/mynsnews/story.tmpl?
> table=n&cat=50580&id=200111090045000231472
>
> ...is 1000 teraflops enough for real-time raytracing? ;)
> --
> Tim Cook
> http://empyrean.scifi-fantasy.com
>
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> PGP-(--) t* 5++>+++++ X+ R* tv+ b++(+++) DI
> D++(---) G(++) e*>++ h+ !r--- !y--
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"Timothy R. Cook" wrote:
> 
> Quick!  Someone write a port of POV for Blue Gene/C!
> You have, let's see, 5 years?
> http://dailynews.netscape.com/mynsnews/story.tmpl?
> table=n&cat=50580&id=200111090045000231472
> 
> ...is 1000 teraflops enough for real-time raytracing? ;)

Looks like it will be heavily parallel processors.
So, it's time to think about multi-threaded pov, which
is, based on 3.1g code, a long route to remove all the 
bad spots...
It may give a start to 'one pixel -- one processor' design...
Better to also speed up the parser, or you will end up with
a parse time really bigger than the rendering (with photons and radiosity
and a lot of media).

I wonder who has the money to buy one as well the power plant it will need.
(or who have free current ?)

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Looks like I'm too late, I get an error. What did it say?

- Nekar

"Timothy R. Cook" <tim### [at] scifi-fantasycom> wrote in message
news:3BEB9852.5F774009@scifi-fantasy.com...
> Quick!  Someone write a port of POV for Blue Gene/C!
> You have, let's see, 5 years?
> http://dailynews.netscape.com/mynsnews/story.tmpl?
> table=n&cat=50580&id=200111090045000231472
>
> ...is 1000 teraflops enough for real-time raytracing? ;)
> --
> Tim Cook
> http://empyrean.scifi-fantasy.com
>
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On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:44:00 +0200, "Nekar Xenos" <j-p### [at] citywalkcoza> wrote:

>Looks like I'm too late, I get an error. What did it say?

Works fine for me. Perhaps you have to join both lines of url splitted by
Timothy's newsreader.

ABX
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#declare _=function(a,b,x){((a^2)+(b^2))^.5-x}#default {pigment{color rgb 1}}
union{plane{y,-3}plane{-x,-3}finish{reflection 1 ambient 0}}isosurface{ //ABX
function{_(x-2,y,1)|_((x+y)*.7,z,.1)|_((x+y+2)*.7,z,.1)|_(x/2+y*.8+1.5,z,.1)}
contained_by{box{<0,-3,-.1>,<3,0,.1>}}translate z*15finish{ambient 1}}//POV35

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Nekar Xenos wrote:
> 
> Looks like I'm too late, I get an error. What did it say?

Try this-
http://dailynews.netscape.com/mynsnews/story.tmpl?table=n&cat=50580&id=200111090045000231472

-- 
Ken Tyler

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Oh , i wonder if someday we will be able to do online render on those super
machines.

Just that, upload the code, download the image. :-)
I bet that downloading a 1 Meg BMP is way faster than most renders we've
been doing.


Will

"Timothy R. Cook" <tim### [at] scifi-fantasycom> escreveu na mensagem
news:3BEB9852.5F774009@scifi-fantasy.com...
> Quick!  Someone write a port of POV for Blue Gene/C!
> You have, let's see, 5 years?
> http://dailynews.netscape.com/mynsnews/story.tmpl?
> table=n&cat=50580&id=200111090045000231472
>
> ...is 1000 teraflops enough for real-time raytracing? ;)
> --
> Tim Cook
> http://empyrean.scifi-fantasy.com
>
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> D++(---) G(++) e*>++ h+ !r--- !y--
> ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

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> Works fine for me. Perhaps you have to join both lines of url
> splitted by Timothy's newsreader.

Actually I split it by hand, 'cuz my newsreader has the annoying
habit of splitting long lines in such a way that it leaves a few
characters on the next line if I don't manually wrap it.

-- 
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.scifi-fantasy.com

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> I wonder who has the money to buy one as well the power plant
> it will need. (or who have free current ?)

Hmm Bill Gates, maybe...I doubt it's something you 'buy', more
likely just rent time on.  Big corporations and governments are
pretty much the only entities able to actually buy things like
that.  Just find someone who's involved in the project, slip
'em POV and your scene file, and ask them to run it through the
supercomputer. ;)

Oh yeah, then give you the output.

-- 
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.scifi-fantasy.com

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