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.
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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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