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6 Oct 2024 11:14:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Radiosity with lots of RAM  
From: Warp
Date: 2 Jul 2001 18:44:28
Message: <3b40f94b@news.povray.org>
Kari Kivisalo <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
: Would it be possible to speed radiosity by putting the main scene file
: in RAM disk so that the .rca file would be in RAM too?

  I don't think the values are read from the .rca-file, only written to.
The only situation where the values are read is once with continued traces.
In this case putting the .rca file in memory wouldn't help too much.

  I might be wrong, of course.

-- 
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -


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