Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Transient <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > How many objects I can place in a scene?
>
>   How much memory do you have?

      2 Gb. Can extend to 4 Gb - should I do that?

>
> > To be more specific lets say I want to draw a scene with 1 million spheres.
> > How much time it will take (roughly, on a modern PC) ?
>
>   Depends on your rendering settings, lighting, texturing, resolution, etc.
> Anything from a few seconds to hours.

     I need the quality that is called "stunning" - is it still within
"hours"?
>
> > What are the critical
> > characteristics of a computer (cache, frequency, CPU, memory, graphic card)
> > which would let me plot more objects faster?
>
>   CPU. Memory speed has some effect too.

   Thanks a lot for the answer
>
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>                                                           - Warp

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