On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 15:53:20 -0000, "Alf Peake"
<alf### [at] peake42freeservecouk> wrote:

>Dropped the y-plane to lose shadow so could remove the large area
>lights, dumped MPov+photons for Pov3.1g, swapped blob for 400 spheres
>and got render time down to 18hrs (+a0.1) from 56 (no aa and smaller)
>with a Celeron 500.

Maybe if you used sphere_sweeps instead of spheres/blobs you'd cut the
render time to a sane level *with* photons and shadows and aa and all.
Then again, maybe not :)


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