Mick Hazelgrove wrote:
> 
> [...]  Normally such output would be in the form of a displacement
> map and a low res mesh( the way the pros are moving) but Pov does not
> support subpixel displacement maps.

???

POV-Ray is a raytracer and whatever program you saw advertising itself 
being capable of doing 'subpixel displacement mapping' surely wasn't 
one.  A raytracer doing on-the-fly displacement of a mesh does not even 
know it it is 'subpixel' or not.

I don't see any problem rendering a 750 MB mesh if you have enough 
memory.  But of course such a large mesh for a simple head is quite too 
much, as Gilles said an adaptive subdivision would be the way to go.

Christoph

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