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From: cazabon@hercules (Charles Cazabon (186-003-526))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: DBWRender anyone?
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Date: 31 May 91 08:59:40 GMT
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In article <1991May31.061319.29473@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> cowgilc@prism.cs.orst.edu (Clayton Cowgill) writes:
:Howdy,
:
:	I grabbed the sources to DBWRender off ab20 and tried to compile them
:	with Lattice C... The sources compile fine, but after starting the
:	trace my '3000 becomes _very_ sluggish and never appears to write out
:	anything to disk. I haven't let it run for a night to see if it's just
:	REAL heavy load on the CPU, but I don't recall it behaving this way on
:	my PC clone at all. Anyone have any success stories or advice for me?
:
I am not sure what version of DBWrender you are using...or whether it has
ever been updated.  Years ago (about 5) I rendered half a dozen pictures
on my 512K, one floppy A1000.  Most of them took between 12 and 24 hours.
However, it did handle refraction better than any ray tracer I have ever
seen (including Turbo Silver, Sculpt, Imagine, and Lightwave).

--Chuck Cazabon, cazabon@hercules.cc.uregina.ca
* My Opinions Are Not My Own...Feel Free To Plagiarize