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Rendering an island from Moana in less than 10,000 lines of Swift code

An island from Moana (2048 × 858 pixels, 64 spp) rendered with Gonzales to Google Cloud storage with 8 vCPUs and 64 GB of memory in about 26 hours. In memory, it takes about 60 GB. Noise reduction using OpenImageDenoise.
An island from Moana (2048 × 858 pixels, 64 spp) rendered with Gonzales to Google Cloud storage with 8 vCPUs and 64 GB of memory in about 26 hours. It takes about 60 GB in memory. Noise reduction using OpenImageDenoise.

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