"Anthony D. Baye" <ant### [at] goldsdsmtedu> wrote:

>  While this is an interesting technique, I have yet to find any way to
> make it practical.  The biggest problem is one of memory: my computer
> has 2Gb of ram, but POV still crashes when parsing this effect at
> dimensions somewhere above 9.21875' by 5.25'.  This is due, no doubt, to
> the rather LARGE number of objects generated by my macro - at this size,
> there are roughly 148,680 individual objects.

.... On second thought, if it's possible in POV-Ray (which I'm too novice to
know for sure), try processing only 1 row at a time, instead of the full
image.

You mentioned "macro".... so would it be possible to call your macro 168
times, one for each row?

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