POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Storing height_field mesh between frames of an animation: Re: Storing height_field mesh between frames of an animation

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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 12 Mar 2007 13:10:01
Message: <45f59779$1@news.povray.org>

scam wrote:
> But won't the image file need to be converted back into a mesh at parse
> time?
> 
> Just to clarify, I have 5000x5000 pixel png image 

That is at least 25 MB, even if it is compressed to like 12 MB, which do
take a second or two to read from disk alone - if you have a fast disk and
the file is stored linearly on disk!

Heightfields in POV-Ray are not converted to meshes.

	Thorsten

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