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2 Aug 2024 12:16:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: More than 4gig of memory?  
From: Alex McMurray
Date: 26 Oct 2004 19:20:50
Message: <417edbd2@news.povray.org>
"Florian Brucker" <tor### [at] torfboldcom> wrote in message 
news:417df5a5$1@news.povray.org...
>> 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? :)
> I got only 1 Gig of RAM, but you reach that one pretty fast (Last time it 
> was a rather simple fractal). I'm sure if you throw in some large meshes 4 
> Gig are not far away.
>
> Would be interesting how much memory the clients of Pixar's and 
> Dreamwork's render farms got, but a quick google did not reveal 
> anything...
>
Found a site that did the CG stuff for Harry Potter films, they stated that 
the texture files for the old Ford Anglia used in the film, took up 14 gig.
they didn't say how much memory the mesh files took up though.

Alex


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