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7 Aug 2024 03:18:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Memory question - splines  
From: Rune
Date: 1 Dec 2001 21:33:24
Message: <3c0992f4@news.povray.org>
"Slime" wrote:
> What if you did this:
>
> write the positions of particles to multiple files,
> each file containing the data for, say, 100 frames.
> Then, when rendering, figure out which part of which
> file to read for the current frame, and use the data
> from there.

I suppose that could be done. But still the disc space required would be
many hundred MB, which is perhaps not a problem for some, but it is on my
computer...

Rune
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