POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Looking to the Sun : Re: Looking to the Sun Server Time
31 Jul 2024 22:11:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Looking to the Sun  
From: Edouard
Date: 20 Mar 2009 15:55:00
Message: <web.49c3f41faa0d6de0617fb3dd0@news.povray.org>
Paolo Gibellini <p.g### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Interesting technique and superb image!
> How long did you take to obtain the D3F file?
> ;-)
> Paolo

Each slice took about 20 seconds, with the mesh loading being about 12 seconds
of that. Each slice was 60x90 with 25 samples per pixel (=135000 samples).
There are 60 slices in total, which is about 8 million samples. A simpler mesh
would take less time.

I just ran it as an animation in the background and it was done in 20 minutes or
so.

You could probably write an adaptive version of the sampling code and speed
things up a lot as well.

Cheers,
Edouard.


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