"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Yes, it's entirely possible. However, refining the render time would probably
> take me several evenings' tinkering with the source, whereas if I just did
> something else during that time it's half finished anyway. :) The isosurface
> floor could probably use a smaller max_gradient, I could certainly get away
> with a lower-res area_light, radiosity quality may well be too high, and I seem
> to recall that the default media sampling (which this uses) is unwise. Including
> the media seemed to produce the biggest slow-down... and, of course, merely
> activating the aa on a scene like this is a huge drag.

Um... yeah, if aside from area lights and radiosity you also did use isosurfaces
and media, then I'll keep my cake-hole shut :X

BTW, I don't agree with the other posters that the shot would look much better
with transparent material; you win the caustics, but I guess you lose a lot on
the shadow effect that this image shows off very impressively.

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