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This Site
I've decided to set up a web site to show off my art work
which I have created in Pov-Ray. I also want
to share links, tutorials and source code.
The design of the site was partly inspired by Spider's site, POV fanatics will know
who I mean. I want it to load fast, be easy to follow, and to work, no Java
Applets, animated GIFs or MIDI files. Please contact me by email
if you have any comments or if something on one of my pages doesn't work.
Zero PPS stands for Zero Pixels Per Second. When I'm working on a large or
complicated image in Pov-Ray, and I set the program off to produce the image,
it needs to parse the image first (work out where all the bits go), then it starts
to trace (produce the visual image). While performing these processes Pov-Ray
reports its progress by telling you how many pixels per second it is processing.
Some images render quite quickly, at something like 500 PPS. But some render slow
at say 14 PPS.
If an average sized image, say 800x600 renders at one pixel per
second, the image will take five and a half days to render. So if it's rendering
at 0 PPS watch out. While parsing (and some images can take days to parse), Pov-Ray
reports 0 PPS. The current image I'm working on has been parsing for 23 hours now
and counting. Don't let this put you off raytracing, after a while you can tell roughly
how long an image will take to render just by reading the code.
The above paragraphs were written back in 1999, then I had a PII 266 which was quite
fast, the computers of the time had only a fraction of the processing power that
they have these days (2006). I'll leave the description the way it is to serve as a reminder
of just how far along the technology has come.
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About Me
My name's Steve, I was born in 1967. I live in
a town called Chorley in North West England, I work in mental health as a
User Development Worker working with people not computers though most of the staff
could be mistaken for androids. I don't work for the NHS,
I work for an outside independent organisation (so I'm not one of the androids).
I've got a dog called Toby,
I like raytracing, programing, lots of different music particularly playing classical guitar,
I don't watch TV, I do walk the dog.
I hope you've enjoyed looking at my site.
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