Re: [Gnu3dkit-dev] Scene size limits

[Philippe C . D . Robert]

On Mittwoch, Oktober 9, 2002, at 08:38  Uhr, Brent Gulanowski wrote:
> 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.

Incremental loading from disk is the ultimate goal. I do not know how 
high its priority really is.

> 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.

What do you have in mind?

-Phil
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