Plus it's starting to feel like I'd have better luck defining the scene as a textfile script, and feeding it into POVray on my old Atari ST (1mb RAM, no hard drive, 720k floppy drive and an 8Mhz 16bit CPU with literally NO graphical acceleration of ANY kind). Because, sure, it took 24 hours to render even moderately complex scenes, but it WOULD actually DO IT! With probably 1/1000th the memory and Cpu power, and one millionth the disc space...