Warp schrieb:
> 
>   Actually, thinking about it, you confused me.
> 
>   POV-Ray doesn't need to keep the entire image in memory in order to render
> it (after all, POV-Ray was developed on systems with limited amount of memory,
> yet was able to render images larger than any conceivable RAM size back then).

I'm too much involved in 3.7 development to have 3.6 anywhere on the 
radar ;-)

At present, the architecture of POV-Ray 3.7 does not allow for writing 
image output before rendering has actually finished, so the whole smash 
must be buffered.


>   (Of course you won't be able to *save* that image anywhere because you
> would encounter limitations in the file system. But that doesn't stop
> POV-Ray from *rendering* the image.)

You'd probably have to disable preview as well :-)

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