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1 Aug 2024 02:21:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Arbitrary area light  
From: Carlo C 
Date: 18 Jan 2009 09:00:00
Message: <web.497335dc9cf147cb1fb889f00@news.povray.org>
"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "Mike Hough" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> > According to the IRTC text file the original took 2 hours to render using
> > 106 processors (1.9GHz P3s - 2.3GHz P4s) from Swinburne
> > Astrophysics and Supercomputing Farm, Australia.
>
> Why on earth would such a shot take 10 CPU days to render?!
>
> There's not even reflection in it.

Try to believe.
I have a suspicion:  error_bound 0.02

;-)

--
Carlo


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