[Gnu3dkit-dev] Scene size limits

[Brent Gulanowski]

On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 03:52  PM, Philippe C.D. Robert wrote:

> This said, I hope the new 3DKit will support very large datasets.
  [...]
> If you will be able to load scenes into an optimised scene rep or not, 
> I don't know yet. This will also be depending on the 
> G3DSceneRep/G3DScene concept. In general, one of the highest 
> priorities is to keep it simple and flexible so that it can be used 
> for many different purposes.
>
> I personally plan to use it for rendering relatively large scenes.

Great! So would we be so bold as to say that there is no necessary 
upper limit? Here's the trick, though, which was why I thought of 
dynamic loading: will the constraint be memory, or disk space (counting 
swap space as memory)? If we can read from disk, we can support much 
larger scenes, at the cost of higher complexity.

I guess I'm just asking if we want to support incremental loading of 
scenes. I can think of a couple of ways to handle it, depending on the 
design of the G3DScene/G3DSceneRep.

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