The rug pic above took less than 10 minutes to render at 64 rpp. I don't think it would add a large amount of time to a complete scene. I could be wrong and usually am. And it wasn't spikes, it was basic noise (which give a finer grain).

Message edited on: 09/01/2004 13:21

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy