Transient nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/07/16 06:57:
> 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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Top factor: CPU FAST, effecient, multiple and/or multicores.
Next: RAM as much as you can install, high quality with minimum latency.
More cache can help, but you don't have control on that.
Fast hard drive with an optimised swap file if you need to use the swap file 
when rendering, more RAM will reduce that need.

Pointless item: the video card as the GPU is hardly ever used when refreshing 
the preview display. You could have an old ISA B/W 8Kb card and still have the 
same rendering performances.

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