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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Ray Tracing & filter references
Message-ID: <183@ndmath.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Feb-87 14:57:17 EST
Article-I.D.: ndmath.183
Posted: Thu Feb  5 14:57:17 1987
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Organization: Math. Dept., Univ. of Notre Dame
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Keywords: references, ray tracing, box filters
Summary: How long can a pixel take?


Another related question...for those of you who have been involved in 
generating VERY complex images.  What is the typical amount of time/pixel 
invested in the generation of a complex ray-traced image?  Would it make
sense in the case of images that require hours of computer time to send
a copy of the database to a number of machines, then assign pixels to each
machine a few at a time?  That way you could distribute the processing over
a large number of CPU's but it would be easy to stop processing on a 
cpu who's load average (from other users) is on the rise.

Greg Corson