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30 Jul 2024 00:30:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Maximum Resolution of Renders?  
From: Warp
Date: 10 Oct 2010 03:20:47
Message: <4cb1694f@news.povray.org>
Le_Forgeron <jgr### [at] freefr> wrote:
> You are correct.
> But testing an empty scene (well, 1 camera, 1 light source) with a 20500
> x 20500 size gives the following observations:
> (-A -D)

> memory used on system jumps to 9.6G at the render start.

  With which version of POV-Ray? Currently 3.7beta does indeed allocate
RAM for the entire image. 3.6 shouldn't (when display is off).

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                                                          - Warp


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