Norbert Kern wrote:
> 
> The problem with the grass is its need for memory. First aand second version
> had 90000 blades. Now the scene uses 200 Mbyte less memory with "only" 48000
> blades. I have defined 1 Gbyte swap space, so I have to be careful.
> 
> My old PII has 224 Mbyte ram.
> The next model will be bought soon (dreaming of a 1.4 Ghz Athlon with 1 GB
> DDR sdram).
> 

That explains why you are not able to use radiosity, memory use would be
much more intensive then and swapping is quite impossible, even if the
total amount of memory used is not larger.

Christoph

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