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28 Jul 2024 22:24:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: How many objects?  
From: Warp
Date: 16 Jul 2007 07:07:02
Message: <469b5155@news.povray.org>
Transient <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> How many objects I can place in a scene?

  How much memory do you have?

> To be more specific lets say I want to draw a scene with 1 million spheres.
> How much time it will take (roughly, on a modern PC) ?

  Depends on your rendering settings, lighting, texturing, resolution, etc.
Anything from a few seconds to hours.

> What are the critical
> characteristics of a computer (cache, frequency, CPU, memory, graphic card)
> which would let me plot more objects faster?

  CPU. Memory speed has some effect too.

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                                                          - Warp


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