POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Trying to save memory : Re: Trying to save memory Server Time
2 Aug 2024 14:17:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Trying to save memory  
From: Rafal 'Raf256' Maj
Date: 7 Oct 2004 19:15:45
Message: <Xns957CCCB8D639raf256com@203.29.75.35>
fcu### [at] riceedu news:415bb1f2$1@news.povray.org

> I have a union of *many* copies of a heightmap.

Probably most memoy will be taken by height_field itself. You might want to 
convert it into mesh.

Btw, perhaps it is a good idea to add to POV-Ray support for referenced 
objects (not only meshes) so that 

#declare thingy = object { ........ }

even if object tooks 1 MB of memory, then

object { thingy }
object { thingy translate ... }
object { thingy translate ... }
object { thingy translate ... }

will took like 1.01 MB of memory, not 4 MB.


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Rafal Maj 'Raf256', home page - http://www.raf256.com/me/
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