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1 Aug 2024 10:15:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Grass sphere progress  
From: Reactor
Date: 13 Aug 2008 00:25:00
Message: <web.48a26163a61b22c2829828e30@news.povray.org>
"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Not a finished image yet, but some development on the grassy sphere. Rendering
> grass is quite interesting; placement algorithms seem to be far more important
> than the actual grass geometry... this rendered in 4+ hours (AA with radiosity
> really hammers it).
>
> Bill


I think I would have done the radiosity without all of the grass and saved it,
then loaded the stored radiosity data for the final trace.  I find this to be
much faster, and the results are rarely different.

-Reactor


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