Show HN: I rendered the Go gopher using Go

Re:Show HN: I rendered the Go gopher using Go by benreic on Friday February 06, 2015 @11:54AM (#9009877)

I was surprised at how little code it takes to generate the gopher, using your library, that's cool.

I started generating the gopher locally abd let it go through one iteration, taking 4:34, until I realized it takes 1000 iterations to fully render :) I killed it.

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Re:Show HN: I rendered the Go gopher using Go by fogleman on Friday February 06, 2015 @11:58AM (#9009912)

It doesn't take 1000, that's just a giant number I put in. You can stop whenever you want (acceptable noise levels)

You can also reduce the resolution.

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Re:Show HN: I rendered the Go gopher using Go by benreic on Friday February 06, 2015 @12:02PM (#9009934)

Good to know. How many iterations did you use to generate the images on github?

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Re:Show HN: I rendered the Go gopher using Go by fogleman on Friday February 06, 2015 @01:20PM (#9010569)

Most of them rendered on the order of ~30 minutes. The gopher I ran overnight, although it really only needed about 2 hours to get really good quality. Keep in mind these durations are for large resolutions.

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Re:Show HN: I rendered the Go gopher using Go by melling on Friday February 06, 2015 @12:03PM (#9009952)

Do you have any observations about the performance of Go?

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