"Reactor" <rea### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> "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.

I'll give it a try.

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