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On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Andrew Hofman <[e-mail]> wrote:
>One nice thing about Alphas: I have never, ever waited 15 minutes for a
>simple test render. Once you throw in lots of raytracing, antialiasing and
>motion blur, more complex scenes may take that long per frame -- on a slow
>day. But at that point they're usually no longer test renders.

    I have a friend who has the rather questionable skill of being able to
create scenes that take 6 hours/frame to render on an Alpha , uh, 266(?).  Not a
skill one wants to encourage.  The interesting thing is that even on faster
scenes, he seems to be doing >something< that slows the machines down, and I
haven't been able to figure out what it is yet....nothing obvious.....



>Andy Hofman
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