POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Meshes and RAM. : Re: Meshes and RAM. Server Time
5 Aug 2024 12:18:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Meshes and RAM.  
From: Warp
Date: 25 Sep 2002 15:07:22
Message: <3d92096a@news.povray.org>
Shay <sah### [at] simcopartscom> wrote:
> I have about 350 megs of RAM. How many triangle faces will I likely be able
> to use in a scene?

  It depends a lot in the mesh.
  If all the triangles are separate (ie. they don't share vertex points with
any other triangle), then they will take more memory than if each triangle
shares each of its vertices with lots of other triangles.

-- 
#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -


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