In between working on other projects over the past month, I've been 
doing some experiments with image processing in POV.  My first 
installment is my latest experiment.

	While this is an interesting technique, I have yet to find any way to 
make it practical.  The biggest problem is one of memory: my computer 
has 2Gb of ram, but POV still crashes when parsing this effect at 
dimensions somewhere above 9.21875' by 5.25'.  This is due, no doubt, to 
the rather LARGE number of objects generated by my macro - at this size, 
there are roughly 148,680 individual objects.

	I plan to do some further experimentation to see whether or not I can 
make it more memory efficient, but I'm not holding my breath.

	The first image is a single color demonstration, this method is more 
efficient, memory-wise, but not as impressive as the full-color demo IMHO.

The second image is a full-color shot of the entire image, dimensions: 
9.21875' X 5.25'.  The third image is a cropped closeup render.

<A href="http://speedy.sdsmt.edu/~1305761/images/LED.jpg">Monochrome LED 
Display.</A>
<A href="http://speedy.sdsmt.edu/~1305761/images/LED3.jpg">Full Color 
LED Display.</A>
<A href="http://speedy.sdsmt.edu/~1305761/images/LEDCloseup.jpg">Full 
Color Closeup.</A>

Questions/Comments?

Regards,

ADB

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