Attached Link: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=&e=16&u=/ap/20031114/ap_on_hi_te/ibm_supercomputer

saw this on slashdot. looks like it might do the trick!

Yep, saw this earlier on CNN News. But I don't think it will fit in a laptop case.

I don't think that it's going to fit under my desk, though.

And for ONLY $267.000.000!!! Ill take two...

Oh go on Rochr, why not order 5 and link them with Bryce lightning. I'm sure if you could do that you wouldn't just make a static image, you would make a real place. 8) Catlin

Wait 15 years, and my Nokia is more powerful then that...

Seems that way, the way things advance! I remember drooling over a 286 (way back).

Moore's law is catching up with the software once again... and then some!

Maybe by then we'll have quantum computers the size of your thumbnail that'll do the same thing. Rochr is probably right.

i remember doing 3d on a 48 k spectrum the program was by psion and even had a shader routine lol cant wait to get my hands on such a fast machine though although i doubt it we 3d people will ever have fast enough computers as the programs advance as fast if not faster (i would never buy an ibm any way if it wasnt for microsoft we would still be sharing mainframe timeslices.)

Wait a minute! It looks like a dishwasher.......???? Small clue there perhaps...........

I remember working on an atari lol, now that mush have been slow brycing lol

ill wait 3 years and that'll be the day! wait... well that'll be the day when mmmmmmm would bryce still be alive at that time then? well hopefully (when the signature scheme works) then we'll be left with a faster raytracing renderer of BRYCE! complete with 3dmax plugin! wow! that'll THEN be the day... rudy: yup i agree with u, our nokia would be better than that comp... eyecon

heh..I once tried Autocad 1.4 on an 8086..90 minutes' render on St. Paul's cathedral..now..nearly 20 years later, 90 minutes for some Bryce renders..is this progress or what?..;)

And i still remember when harddrives still vere measured in megabytes...and costed a small fortune. Aahh, the good old days... :)

I remember my dad bought a hd with 800 or 900 Mbyte storage. It took 2 5.25 inch bays and it was extremely noisy, but at that time it was HUGE amount of storage. I remember saying "what a waste of money! you're never even going to get half that disk full!" lol

My first computer had a 1Gb hard drive and 64Kb ram. I thought that was brill and thought I'd never fill the HD. Now I have a 120Gb HD and it is half full and it's only got so little on it at the moment 'cos I saved another 40Gb to DVD. How times change. lol 8) Catlin

I'm on 120Gb now too and I've still got 70GByte to backup lol. but my cd-burner is broken. I'll order a DVD burner later this evening though :)

"ysvry" that sounds like VU-3d, hell i even did some animations with that program. Buying a DISCiPLE disk-interface with a 3.5" diskdrive (800k) and a 5.25" with track-switch (40 or 80 tracks) then is like buying a 120gig HD&DVD-burner these days but it was more expensive then.

IS THERE CURRENTLY A PLACE ON THE WEB I CAN SEND MY BRYCE FILE TO BE RENDERED FASTER? I mean Im starting to do work with volumetrics and DAMN I can never get thru one render because it would take a day or so. I nEED my puter. HELP HELP HELLLLLLP!!!

There's renderfarms out there. There is a dedicated bryce renderfarm. but I forgot the name. let me have a look for you. when I find it I'll let you know

Attached Link: http://www.renderblender.net

OH PLEASE!!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!! prufrock81@comcast.net

nope...title page thats it. =O(

aww that sucks... It was a 31 Ghz renderfarm. I wonder why it's gone now. I'll see if I can contact the people who used to run it.

THAT would be totally cool...thanks for your time quote of the day: "There's no such thing as leftover crack" -some guy I walked past in the Haight-

Attached Link: http://www.respower.com

I remember when computing meant cranking the handle of a Babbage Calculating Engine........

Prufrock how large is your file? If it's not too huge I could maybe render it for you. Send me an IM and let me know. At least that would save you some money so you can save to buy a new puter just for rendering on. lol 8) Catlin the things we do for Bryce.............8)

Oh, that reminds me, I've still got one of OCDdougs scenes I wanted to render at 6K res! I'll put my laptop to the rendering then I think... thanx for refreshing my memory catlin :) Faster cpu's can help soo much :) if you've got an old cpu then upgrading cpu and ram can be the cheapest way to boost your renders a lot. Remember that very nice house that JC made? It took a night to render at 800x600 pixels? I wanted to print it so I needed a high-res version so JC was kind enough to send me the file and then I rendered it at 6K res on my own comp and it only 16 hours lol :) and that with 56.25 times as much pixels to calculate :)

So true Rayraz! I designed an animation on my old P3 550 desktop. 5 secs. long at 480x360 30 fps. I was animating several terrains to simulate the water in a river. Each frame took a half-hour to render. I rendered the same file on my P4 2.4 laptop and each frame took less than 5 mins Each machine had 256meg of ram. I imagine adding more ram would speed things up even more.