Also, note that tachyon can spend a lot of time pre-processing the scene
data (single-threaded) if you have lots of objects. For example,
sum(sphere((random(),random(),random()), size=0.1) for i in
range(10000)).show(viewer='tachyon')
is spending all of its time preprocessing. The command line output is:
Tachyon Parallel/Multiprocessor Ray Tracer Version 0.98.9
Copyright 1994-2010, John E. Stone <...@gmail.com>
------------------------------------------------------------
Scene Parsing Time: 3.3672 seconds
Scene contains 1300013 objects.
Preprocessing Time: 28.1727 seconds
Rendering Progress: 100% complete
Ray Tracing Time: 0.2502 seconds
Image I/O Time: 0.0068 seconds
Only 1/4 second in the ray tracing code is parallel. Of course once every
surface becomes reflective most of the time will be spend in the ray
tracing part.
On Friday, March 2, 2012 1:20:53 PM UTC-8, Volker Braun wrote:
>
> From the spkg-install:
>
> # The threaded version of the 0.98 beta doesn't work on OS X.
>
> I haven't tried it myself.
>
>
>
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