"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.

This was back in 2002. :)

http://propro.ru/go/gallery/html/us2002.html

Perhaps it's because the scene consists of CSG primitives rather than
polygons...

Post a reply to this message