POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.competition : Image Submission Reality Check : Re: Image Submission Reality Check Server Time
28 Mar 2024 12:28:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Image Submission Reality Check  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 10 Sep 2004 17:40:02
Message: <cht6tt$2j$1@chho.imagico.de>
Gilles Tran wrote:
> 
> Not with radiosity (and perhaps photons, I didn't test).
> Here is memory use for the scene below, with and without radiosity:
> 320 x 240 : 13 Mb (150 kb)
> 640 x 480 : 30 Mb (190 kb)
> 1600 x 1200 : 58 Mb (324 kb)
> 6400 x 4800 : 105 Mb (10 Mb)
> 
> Fortunately, the increase isn't proportional, but it's still important, and
> this scene is minimal.
> 
> global_settings{
>     radiosity{error_bound 0.02 count 300 recursion_limit 1}
> }

Well - with that settings for sure. But that is not a question of render 
size but of radiosity samples taken and stored.  If your settings lead 
to a lot of samples being taken during final trace the memory use will 
raise during the render.

Memory use by photons do not increase during render.

Christoph

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