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From: JWV
Date: 17 Apr 2004 13:27:46
Message: <40816912@news.povray.org>
Thanks for trying it! The level 4 scene should have about 48^4=5.308.416
cubes. I am not sure how much memory is used for this amount, but it apears
to be quite a lot.

Greetings,

JWV
"stephen parkinson" <ste### [at] zmemw16demoncouk> wrote in message
news:4081644e$1@news.povray.org...
> JWV wrote:
> >>
> >>>The level-4 render was to much for my laptop :-(. It used 2GB of memory
> >>>while parsing, and it wasn't finished jet.
> >>>
> >>>I will post the source in p.b.sf if someone wants to give it a try on a
> >>>machine with a LOT of memory  :-).
> >>>
> >>>Greetings JWV
> >>
> >>
> >>That looks cool!  I might give it a try if you post the source.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
> i'm peeved / tee'd off
>
> dual 2.8 xeon, 2gb ram, explicitly added 2gb of swap space above its
> norm of 1gb and still ran out of space with recursion level of 4
>
> anyone got a machine that can render it ?
>
> stephen


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