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Zesty wrote:
| I was on the povcomp website looking (okay, drooling) at the grand
prize and
| at the bottom of the description, it mentions that it can be used
to render
| scenes that would be "impossible with only 4 gig of memory
(paraphrased)."
|
| I admit to being very much a novice with Povray, but what scenes
take more
| than 4 gig of memory? Has anyone worked on such things, and are
they in the
| hall of fame? :)
|
| Just curious,
|
	This image waasn't rendered with pov since at that recursion level
it used too much memory... OTOH having more than 4G could allow the
use of a higher recursion, or the addition of photons, radiosity, etc.

http://jberger.free.fr/tmp/blok.jpg

		Jerome

PS: the original (POVRay) image was made by JWV in april 2004:
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3C408027c5%40news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=201532&toff=650

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