SFOtoHKGin5min
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San Francisco to Hong Kong in 5 minutes
Introduction
This is a followon article to CheapFlights, and while the metaphor may be showing stress cracks, please bear with me. In the previous article we made the most of a single threaded, and hence single core program by taking advantage of the embarrassingly parallel nature of moving the camera. However, the time taken to render any given frame was completely unchanged, remaining at 15 minutes for that particular scene file.