[Radiance-general] Re: rholo?

Mon, 12 May 2003 11:54:34 -0700

It's really difficult to answer these sorts of questions -- you just 
have to try it and see if it works for you.  The rendering time as 
always depends on your settings -- interreflections, etc.  A PowerMac 
G4 with a Radeon 9000 card should work fine.  Be sure to use the X11 
server from Apple, as it supports OpenGL fairly well.  That way, you 
can use the -o ogl driver.

-Greg

> From: Randolph Fritz <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun May 4, 2003  3:26:39  PM US/Pacific
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Radiance-general] rholo?
> Reply-To: [email protected]
>
> Please, would people talk about about their experiences using rholo?  
> With enough preparation, can it be used for real-time walkthroughs as 
> the name suggests?  What type of computer would a I need to do 
> it--would a 400 MHz PowerMac G4 with a Radeon 9000 card do?
>
> How *much* rendering time would it need to cover, say, the level of a 
> detail of a half-inch physical model of a 1200 ft^2 gallery?  (For SI 
> users: 1:20 scale, about 100 m^2)  (How much modelling time would it 
> take me to finish that, I wonder?  Ulp!)
>
> Randolph