Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Python/C/Pascal ... How To Choose ? Date: 10 Nov 2025 20:50:14 GMT Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <10eqid5$3du22$1@dont-email.me> <10es6r9$3rnhn$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net HGc+ixVc4pj4CSXJ1FoBLg4w/GNk6tLVuYrHNWOhd45RIgyKjU Cancel-Lock: sha1:oy9Tar30XAgJ01n8rgwZpN11q3c= sha256:Soknu0yj94bGxc449JotR0GCdRWOMJ0ovYQBvlEtFjc= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:77276 On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:13:30 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:57:36 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote: > >> Having waited hours for an 8086 to process a drawing in Autocad, that a >> video takes a few minutes to process doesn't worry me. > > In my early days of learning Blender 3D, I put together a 10-second > animation, inspired by an old SF series from my younger days. At a > little over 20 minutes for each frame, the whole render took about 4 > days. > > For a project in Puerto Rico we had gigabytes of satellite imagery that was in a slightly different projection than the geodata. If you overlaid the imagery on the streets it didn't match up. There was a company, Lizard Tech, that made a tool to do the job. The Esri API would handle small images but iirc if you tried to do more than 5 MB you got a popup that said to call the Lizards. The tool was $5000 and did the job -- in days.