Instead of using union {, try merge {.

I had the same kind of problem and I found it help a lot. I don't figure out how
though.

Fabien HENON



> Okay; POV doesn't seem to play nice with memory.  I've got a data file I'm
> trying to parse and render.  It's over 13 megs, and is basically around
> 320,000 spheres (I estimate. . .I don't know exactly; that's a rough
> mathematical guess).  I tried rendering it on my computer and it sucked up
> all my pagefile, and gave me an error after about 6 minutes of parsing
> (during that time I could not do anything on my computer).
>
> So I took it to my roommate's computer (much faster).  I started it, and
> after some 10 hours of parsing, I got the same error.
>
> So the question is, how do I go about rendering something like this?  I'm
> quite upset with POV, it really really sucks up all resources, even in
> win2k, which has good memory management.
>
> Could one of my problems be the union statement that encompasses all of
> these spheres?  I only put that in there for convenience to just 'group' the
> spheres.  If this is screwing me over, it's easily removable.
>
> So, how do I render this sucker without fubaring my computer?
>
> Thanks. . .
>
> --
>
> Mike Metheny
>
> "He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."

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