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  Re: Rendering recursive objects (Menger Sponge)  
From: Christian Froeschlin
Date: 8 Nov 2011 11:09:03
Message: <4eb9541f@news.povray.org>
Terabyte wrote:

> So my question is: Since Menger Sponges are recursive (in fact it's only one
> single cube, copied millions of times), is there a possibility, to save RAM by
> "telling" Pov-Ray to use the same object over and over again, instead of
> creating different copies of the same cube?

You can provide it as a recursive function and render as isosurface.

See, for example, this thread:

http://news.povray.org/povray.advanced-users/thread/%3Cweb.46e8c494ee0a3a9a54585d60@news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=365989&toff=200


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