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Re: [pygame] is there any limit of surface size?



On 4/11/08, Thiago Chaves <shundread@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is that:
>  * The size of a single dimension, meaning that you can at most get a
>  surface of 16384 pixels per 16384 pixels (given that you have enough
>  memory to do so)?
>  * The total area of the image, meaning that you shouldn't be able to
>  instantiate images bigger than 128 pixels per 128 pixels?
>  * The total memory used to store the image, in which case, are we
>  talking about bits, bytes, kilobytes, kibibytes (=P), megabytes or
>  what?
I'm not sure which.
In my Mandelbrot Set Program, I tried to make an image twice the
dimensions of the screen shot, but was unsuccessful, as it was too
big.  Short answer, "yes"