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From: Jamie Davison
Date: 13 Jun 2001 16:53:57
Message: <MPG.1591cb5bf1a9006e989949@news.povray.org>
> I agree with your comments about the fill light.

> 
> 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).

Not to poke holes in your dreams, but why not just go for the 1.33Ghz 
Athlon, and save a bit of money towards the memory for the sake of 66mhz 
(What am I saying?!  My first PC capable of running POV only had 
66Mhz...)

Oh well, just a thought.

Bye for now,
     Jamie.


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