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Rendered with Bryce 5.5.

Not happy with the way the planet on the left came out... a sphere shouldn't appear elliptical. Original image rendered at 3600x2400, with premium effects and antialiasing. For the statistics nuts, this took approximately 5 hours to render, with over 1.48 Quadrillion ray traces.

I think this could have been done at a lower render quality with about the same quality in the finished product. The time wasn't an issue for me, however, I set it to start rendering at the beginning of my shift. No loss of computer time for me.

Couple notes for those of you trying to figure if you want to cash in on that Bryce Jumpstart deal . Bryce 5.0 is cheap (19.95) but a touch slow to render... and it is a resource hog... little things that annoyed me were things like the system clock never updating.... Network rendering was ok, as long as I had the server do some of the rendering as well (as my laptop is the fastest puter in the house). Bryce 5.5 comes with a few more features, doesn't lock up your system, but it's actually faster to render a scene with just the laptop than it is to use my two Dell 2400s in network mode, since the server in 5.5 won't render... (and the two desktops combined can't render 1/2 as fast as the laptop!).

Overall, I like it.

Description
Rendered with Bryce 5.5.

Not happy with the way the planet on the left came out... a sphere shouldn't appear elliptical. Original image rendered at 3600x2400, with premium effects and antialiasing. For the statistics nuts, this took approximately 5 hours to render, with over 1.48 Quadrillion ray traces.

I think this could have been done at a lower render quality with about the same quality in the finished product. The time wasn't an issue for me, however, I set it to start rendering at the beginning of my shift. No loss of computer time for me.

Couple notes for those of you trying to figure if you want to cash in on that Bryce Jumpstart deal . Bryce 5.0 is cheap (19.95) but a touch slow to render... and it is a resource hog... little things that annoyed me were things like the system clock never updating.... Network rendering was ok, as long as I had the server do some of the rendering as well (as my laptop is the fastest puter in the house). Bryce 5.5 comes with a few more features, doesn't lock up your system, but it's actually faster to render a scene with just the laptop than it is to use my two Dell 2400s in network mode, since the server in 5.5 won't render... (and the two desktops combined can't render 1/2 as fast as the laptop!).

Overall, I like it.