“If you are running elastic, then your memory footprint is going to be, in the best case scenario, between four and five times larger than in the case of acoustic. It’s simply because of the physics. You are modeling more wave fields simultaneously in a coupled partial differential equation, which …

“There’s no such thing as too much firepower in terms of rendering. When you submit a render, it’s going to try and use every resource available. If I spin up a 60-core machine, the moment I hit render, all 60 cores get pinned at 100% until that render completes.”