POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.programming: ATT: POV team and everyone - POV4 design proposal: Re: ATT: POV team and everyone

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From: Rick [Kitty5]
Date: 13 Jan 2002 07:41:14
Message: <3c41806a$1@news.povray.org>

> > No, I am talking about reusing object descriptions internally: like
> > rendering 10000 copies of a sphere with only one actual sphere object
> > kept in RAM.
>
> Not useful as a general solution:  A sphere takes about 108 bytes in
memory
> right now.  A transformation matrix, 4*4 doubles takes 128 bytes.

I think a sphere was provided as an example, replace sphere above with 20mb
mesh and it suddenly doesn't sound such a bad idea, however impractical it
may be


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