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4 Nov 2024 20:15:41 EST (-0500)
  Re: Yet another ruddy knot  
From: Bill Pragnell
Date: 10 Feb 2006 05:45:00
Message: <web.43ec6d87fb3f67d2731f01d10@news.povray.org>
Florian Brucker <tor### [at] torfboldcom> wrote:
> AFAIK, you will end up with references to all meshes, not to the union.
> Altough those references should take little space that could be a lot,
> assuming you're 79,500 meshes. Can't you merge some of those meshes (Not
> the POV 'merge', of course)? Meshes don't need to be contigous, you know.

It would be possible, but not my preferred option. I don't suppose anybody
knows just how much memory a mesh reference occupies?

Bill


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