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  Re: Blobinator, 1M plus, blob test  
From: INVALID ADDRESS
Date: 25 Feb 2015 10:47:54
Message: <1194408193445822749.224288address_is-invalid.invalid@news.povray.org>
Hey, excellent!

Hopefully this makes it into main. A lot of my macros depend on blobs
(snow, ice coat, icicle, corrosion, etc..), and that limit was vexing.

Now if I can just get Glows in there... :p

Ian

"StephenS" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Related to the Flyspray feature request #305; remove maximum component limit for
blobs (1M)
> 
> Start an array [736][350][736] ....fails on 32bit WinXP, run on 64bit
> WinVista Initilize array element based on trace to mesh() Create a blob
> component only if on surface. ....scan array, check for 6 face elements =
> fully inside, no component used
> 
> Full run, under 15 hours with 2.8Mhz cpu array elements = 43,585,544 blob
> components = 2,826,336 <<<<<<<<< Saved files:
> array 1.64G
> object 131M
> about 3hrs to create array
> about 11-12hrs to select points to use
> trace 2min
> 
> Use results run,
> Read object(blob) file and trace
> 4min
> 
> Comments welcome:
> 
> Stephen S


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