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Subject: Re: Changing aspect ratio
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Allen Hastings writes:
> then just hit the Custom Size
> button and enter your width and height, up to 8000 x 8000 (of course,
> resolutions that high will require lots of ram).

Allen, doesn't segmented rendering reduce the RAM requirements for large
images? Also, how much memory is consumed by LightWave per pixel of output?
I imagine this could be around 20 bytes if R, G, B, alpha, and Z were all
32bit floats.
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