According to some, God created the world in a week -- one whole week. Imagine a single grain of sand being duplicated and placed one by one upon the beaches, every single blade of grass delicately planted side by side on the plains. Imagine creating a whole universe filled with stars and planets, galaxies full of worlds with their own grains of sand and blades of grass.

These days, all I can think about when I imagine that week is this: Wow! That must have been one hell of a supercomputer.

Why?

Well, I've been creating my own worlds lately -- tiny ones that span three square inches on my computer screen when I do the equivalent of "Let there be light!" Then when I render a piece of that world to about the size of 1024 x 768 pixels, it takes me 15 minutes. I repeat: 15 minutes. I can't imagine the time it would take if I rendered the whole world at actual size.

Up here on Mt. Olympus, we're rather proud of our worlds, but all the same I'd like a try at whatever software and computer that God is using. A one-week rendering is pretty damn fast for a world so complex and textured, if you ask me.

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