Newsgroups: comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing,comp.parallel.pvm From: thomas@trust.aztec-design.co.uk (Thomas Molesworth) Reply-To: thomas@bass.almac.co.uk Subject: Re: PVM PoV-Ray speed Organization: Aztec Design Linux Date: 17 Jul 1997 18:31:26 GMT Message-ID: On 17 Jul 1997 17:01:31 +1000, Drake Diedrich wrote: > The pvmpov tiling seems to interfere with one of the POV3 speedups >(light- or vista- buffer). Look carefully at the statistics section >in your output files, and you'll notice pvmpov is doing 4 times as >much work as regular povray. Instead of using square tiles, use tiles >the full height of your picture, and only 5 or 10 pixels wide. >Something like +NW10 +NH480 works well on a 640x480 render. I'll have a look at this, thanks. Does this also apply to animations (which I'm more interested in)? -- Thomas Molesworth (thomas@bass.almac.co.uk)