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1 Aug 2024 04:18:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Not yet finished...  
From: SharkD
Date: 7 Dec 2008 11:40:01
Message: <web.493bfbf8b07b868dbb691c840@news.povray.org>
"Cousin Ricky" <ric### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> What really shocked me was the amount of time it took to render.  At 42 hours,
> it's easily, and by far, the longest render I've ever done.  I'm at a loss as
> to why, for such a simple scene with no media, no refraction, and no
> dispersion.  It uses radiosity, focal blur, and an area light, but based on
> past experience, I didn't expect them to slow the render by 3000x! (The render
> time was only 50 seconds otherwise.)

I'm sorry to tell you that I don't think the radiosity adds a whole lot to the
image in this particular case, so you might just want to ditch it.

-Mike


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