Hello,

I'm kinda new here, but not new to Pov-Ray.

I'm interested in rendering a menger scene, but up until now I'm stuck by at a
Menger Sponge of level 7.

Level 0 to Level 6 together in one scene so far is no problem (takes 1 Gig of
RAM, and 1,5 hour to render a 3200x2400 AA 0.3 scene, with shiny floor and
texture), but at level 7 I keep getting Out Of Memory errors.

So my question is: Since Menger Sponges are recursive (in fact it's only one
single cube, copied millions of times), is there a possibility, to save RAM by
"telling" Pov-Ray to use the same object over and over again, instead of
creating different copies of the same cube?

Thanks in advance for any help,

Terabyte

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