Statistics Reporting

As it is working, informs you of its progress by writing messages to a ``report file''. By default, the report file is the standard error. The report itself consists of a number of progress report lines consisting of the number of eye rays traced, the total elapsed time, and the elapsed time since the last progress report. The end of the report contains detailed statistics about intersection tests performed, the number of rays traced, and the like.


\begin{defkey}{report}{[{\tt verbose}] [{\tt quiet}] [{\em freq}] [{\em file}]}
...
...iven, {\em file} names a file to which the report
will be written.
\end{defkey}
By default, a non-verbose, non-quiet report is written to the standard error once every 10 lines. The -V option may also be used to direct the report to a named file.