#declare SD=seed(255);

blob {
 threshold .05
 #declare index=0;
 #while(index<50000)
  sphere {5*(0.5-<rand(SD),rand(SD),rand(SD)>),rand(SD),5 }
  #declare index=index+1;
 #end
 pigment {rgb 1}
 hollow
 }

This script 50 000 spheres took lest than 5minutes to render on a 933Mhz
512k windows 98 PC


for 500 000, the scene starts to draw at 2m 03 s.. no problem  of memory ...











news:web.469b4f19c04c333f2345a0210@news.povray.org...
> How many objects I can place in a scene? Thousands, millions, billions?
> 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) ? What are the
critical
> characteristics of a computer (cache, frequency, CPU, memory, graphic
card)
> which would let me plot more objects faster?
>
>
>

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