Re: [HACKERS] Re: Developers Globe (FINAL)

Jan, your picture looks great. I'm going to have a presentation at
LinuxWorld Conference in Japan about PostgreSQL tomorrow and I would
like to show your picture to tell people how PostgreSQL developers
widely spread in the world. Can I use that?

Of course I will put a copyright notice of you along with the picture.
--
Tatsuo Ishii

>> >         http://www.postgresql.org/~wieck/index.html
>> >
>> Woh.  I didn't know what ratracing was, but I know I like it.  Certainly
>> jumps out at you.  Is it in a paper tray?
>
>    Do  a reload.  Just to show you what "HIGH QUALITY" rendering
>    means.
>
>    It's still the same scene - just the  border  of  the  box  a
>    little  higher, the glass better visible and sized to 600x300
>    (to better fit on the  page).   This  time  rendered  with  a
>    sampling  rate of 5^2 per pixel (so per pixel 25 eye rays are
>    shot into the scene). Including all  shadowing,  transparency
>    and  reflection  a  total  of  over 20 million rays have been
>    traced (for a picture with 180,000 pixels)!
>
>    Those pictures are CPU killers. A 333 MHz  Celeron  needs  20
>    minutes to finish that one.
>
>    Remember,  it's a 100% virtual picture. Not one single detail
>    is from a scanned photo or the like.
>
>
>Jan
>
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># It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. #
># Let's break this rule - forgive me.                                  #
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