===== From nels1678@tc.umn.edu: Nice image, though I dont see why it took so long to render... Hand made stuff is always a treat. :) ===== From jerry@hoboes.com: Good job on the render farm--I suspect if we ever get a good cross-platform networkable POV-Ray, we're going to hear lots of begging on the net come IRTC deadline time! I really like the painted look of the lake and the cavern; but the chair texture doesn't really stand up to that style. ===== From bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de: I really cannot see what might have taken _that_ long to render this. There are no obvious interreflections, Only thing I could think of was heavy swapping on the machines. You should probably reduce the antialiasing threshold. And from the looks of things there is really only 1 light source that contributes to visible shadows, so that can be turned off for all other light sources. Due to the one predominent lightsource directly overhead and very high ambient setting and "dull" texture colors the whole image appears very "flat". Black pixels all over the image sounds like an overclocked CPU that does no longer do correct FP calculations. ;) ===== From johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu: Try as I might, I REALLY can't see why this would require 14 days of rendering on a render farm... ===== From gmccarter@hotmail.com: Certainly many artifacts at the extreme sides of the image. Easy to tell where the various sub-renderings were pasted together.