POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Largest POV image? : Re: Largest POV image? Server Time
4 Sep 2024 23:18:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Largest POV image?  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 22 Oct 2009 10:17:21
Message: <4ae06971@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> Any theories on how many GB of RAM would be required to render that?
> (Assuming you turn off the display preview - apparently some people
> don't know you can do this...)

In theory, POV-Ray needs to store (width*2) pixels. libpng may need to store
a bunch more rows at once while compressing.


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