CompuServe Messages

Adib, I was just one frame from a 1500+ animation we just finished rendering prior to arrival of Raptor. The scene was finished (and began to be rendered) in October of last year, and it finished rendering a week before the Raptor came in. We had one of the frames in our "Hall of Fame" for rendering records (not exactly _SPEED_ records). This one frame is the last part of a telescope suspended in space. To create it with a realistic look of lens, we used lots of refraction coupled with reflection and a nice map of glass, all this with antialias in Med-Res. Plus ray traced shadows and reflections! This _ONE_ frame took 64 Hrs. 44 Mins. 34 Secs to render back in — I think — January. We saved it in case we would have a problem with the target tape (and out of pity for ourselves, really). When I got the Raptor, I wanted to put it to the test and try that one frame with the same settings as before, and there you have it: 64 Hours + = __41 MINUTES__! Incredible, really… POlo