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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 8 Sep 2002 19:53:18
Message: <3d7be2ee@news.povray.org>

In article <3D7### [at] aolcom> , Jim Charter <jrc### [at] aolcom>  
wrote:

> So in other words it is still something of a mystery.  The 327680 must
> be more than mere coincidence eh?

Yes, photon storage is allocated as blocks of 16384 each and each photon
requires 20 bytes.  You just run out of memory.  Nothing special to it.

    Thorsten

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