sascha wrote:
> 
> Sure, but the per-frame scene files can become really large (several 
> 100MB!) - POV-Ray has no built-in support for subdivision surfaces, and 
> macros are quite slow, so the only way I see is to generate per-frame 
> triangle meshes "on the fly" and delete them after the frame has been 
> rendered. Perhaps I didn't make that clear in my previous message, but 
> the limitation here is disk space, so the size of the meshes does matter 
> (imagine 2000 frames with 100MB mesh data per frame - that's 200GB!).

You are aware that you can delete files from SDL (depending 
io-restrictions of course)?  Well - not exactly delete but reduce to 
zero file size.  Just open them with #fopen in write mode.

Christoph

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