POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Spinner colony (again) : Re: Spinner colony (again) Server Time
6 Oct 2024 05:43:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Spinner colony (again)  
From: clipka
Date: 15 Feb 2015 07:48:40
Message: <54e095a8$1@news.povray.org>
Am 15.02.2015 um 04:07 schrieb Mike Horvath:
> I've been playing around with different scales for the habitat. I prefer
> the larger scale (left in the image). But I know there's no way I can
> render it with the quality levels turned up higher. I tried a couple
> days ago but after 2.5 hours it was still stuck in that stage between
> parsing and actually rendering. I can't spare my computer for the week
> or however long it would require to render the scene.

Sounds like you might be hitting the physical memory limits of your 
computer, and entering the abyss of swap hell. In that case I'd wager 
even a week to be a very optimistic estimate.


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