Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:

> I'm not too sure what I am seeing. I guess that the sun is on the LHS of
> the animation and the white dots are the minor planets. Looking from
> above the plane of the solar system.
>
> It is not what I expected to see. But then reality is overrated IMO. :)

You are correct in your interpretation.
It's certainly not what I expected to see either - although keep in mind that I
have NO data on how big those "minor planets" are - they could be pebbles for
all I know.  It's interesting to see the accumulating objects when the test data
sets are increased from 100, to 100, to 10000, .....

A frame takes a mere 2.5 minutes to read all that data and parse all of those
spheres.   I'd like to figure out a faster way, and maybe something with a wee
bit less demand on memory.

I just thought it would be cool to "populate" the solar system model with some
of the other stuff that's out there.   I had NO idea that there was SO MUCH.
:O

> There is an option to prevent Windoze sleeping in Pov's Render menu.
> (Fourth from the bottom.)

I would guess (hope) I had that checked, but sometimes things get a bit
discombobulated, what with different computers and OS's and versions ...
I will check.

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