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  Re: lack of memory  
From: Tim Attwood
Date: 25 Aug 2006 19:53:14
Message: <44ef8d6a$1@news.povray.org>
>I made about 1,700,000 cubes and it occupied 65% of 2G memory of my 
>machine.
> and I should make 14,000,000 cubes but the memory should be overflowed.
> How can I solve this problem without considering buying more memory?

If you have a lot of cubes that aren't visible, you could cull them, as long 
as they
aren't in the line of sight, or in the line of sight from the light sources 
(shadows),
and they aren't reflective, or opaque, and you aren't using radiosity... 
then the
image should end up the same.


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