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21 Jun 2024 01:59:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV has Limits?  
From: jhu
Date: 25 Sep 2014 01:20:01
Message: <web.5423a51649f622d2d19b0ec40@news.povray.org>
Leroy <lrw### [at] joplincom> wrote:
> I was playing around with building a space station the other day.
> It had around 300,000 blocks. It render fine and fairly fast. So I
> thought it be nice to replace hose blocks with buildings and city
> streets. I used Chris Colefax City builder, made a city and replace
> every block with it. Of course it crashed. I really didn't pay attention
> to the number of objects in the city.
> It turned out to over 5 thousand so I know I POV 3.7 has a limit of a
> billion objects!

Or did you hit your computer's memory limit?

Happens to me sometimes when I forget to close a loop and it runs until memory
runs out.


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