Orchid XP v2 wrote:
>> AMD Athlon x64 4000+, nvidia 4 chipset, 2GB of 400MHz DDR
>> ram. It's my new toy. I've toyed with the setting until I
>> filled RAM without going too much over.
> 
> 
> That's a damn fine machine. I was going to get a 4000+ my self - but it 
> was, like, 3x the price of most of the rest. :-S
> 
> OOC, which OS?

For now, xp x64 pro. Probably won't last. Probably will install
some x64 linux distribution, still haven't decided which. Installing
XP on this box was a quick fix to get it up and working.

> Well, I suppose if you rigure out how much memory 1 photon uses, that 
> would tell you what "count" setting to use... (You wanna check how much 
> RAM is *free* when you do this.)

No, no, I meant that povray should distribute photons adaptatively on
its own, until it reaches the target memory capacity. As of now, 
specifying density is much of guesswork; and count is hard to relate to 
density.

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