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23 Apr 2024 06:43:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: using POV-Ray as 3D renderer for Python scripts  
From: jr
Date: 23 Oct 2021 06:10:00
Message: <web.6173de5fb1b48eb05bd1b3ba6cde94f1@news.povray.org>
hi,

"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> ...
> example of 50 000 000 'things'--even as simple data points/radii-- might take a
> fair amount of time to #read. But I've never used such a really huge .inc file,
> so I don't know for sure.

nor me, so had to try it :-).  on a machine with 16G memory, I stopped at
writing/reading "only" ten million point+radius pairs, POV-Ray then uses already
2.6G.  fwiw, writing took around 150 seconds, reading back about 90 secs.


regards, jr.


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