Rick DeNatale wrote:
> The 8 km/pixel BlueMarble map is
> obviously too coarse, and the 2 km/pixel map is two big to render in my
> machine (3/4 GiB RAM).

I've managed to render the 2 km/pixel map on 512 MB RAM, haven't tried 
it lately 'cuz bogged down in just playing with positioning of various 
elements using the 8 km version to decide that it's ready for a 'final'
render pass.  I tried, but failed, to combine the two 1 km hemispheres 
into a 43200x21600 map, partly due to insufficient system resources, 
partly due to the fact that I don't have an image editing program that 
can handle that large of an image.  I need a special app that'll splice 
them without needing to load the entire file into memory first.

-- 
Tim Cook
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean

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