"Shay" <dd### [at] dddd> wrote in message news:417bdf72$1@news.povray.org...
> Jeremy M. Praay wrote:
>
> Looks nice but
>
>> It's not for the lightly RAM'd (it took about 730MB peak, to render)
>
> Who around here has the power to use *that* in a scene?
>


I have a Gig.  Perhaps next year, I'll upgrade to 2.  When you figure-in 
virtual memory, I robably have about 1.5GB's that I can use before things 
start getting unreasonably slow.  That means that I would probably have to 
make sure that the rest of my image didn't use too much RAM.

BUT!  I would guess that the memory consumption of the tree could be cut 
down considerably.  Right now, I'm not familiar enough with TomTree to 
figure out where all of the memory is getting consumed.  There might be some 
simple things that would decrease memory use drastically.

-- 
Jeremy
www.beantoad.com

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