Aha. I was trying thousands of boxes.  Didn't think immediately of meshes.
So how many "meshed" boxes in this scene?

Pete wrote:

> Greg wrote:
>
> >Thanks, I was hoping for a procedural city, infinite in size, which would
> >enable me to have it buzzing with ships dodging the buildings, etc.
>
>         Make a mesh object and repeat it?  You can get enough copies
> of a mesh (without blowing the memory) so that it looks infinite
> (gets right up to the horizon).
>         I just tried the mesh idea and have attached the resultant
> image to this post.
>
> Pete
>
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>  [Image]

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Greg;

        I made one mesh of 48 times 48 boxes, using a macro to
build the boxes out of triangles.  This mesh is then repeated
in a 15x15 grid.  Each copy is randomly rotated to reduce
the appearance of tiling.
        Umm, so that would be 48 x 48 x 15 x 15 boxes.
        This is the same way that Gilles makes grass, BTW.
        I till post code on povray.text.scene-files, subject
"cells_02.pov".


Pete

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