On 7 Nov 2002 10:09:00 -0500, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

>  Btw, is it more efficient to calculate the intersection of a cylinder
>and the union of the letters, or making a union with the intersections of
>individual letters with (identical) cylinders?

The latter proves to be faster in 99% of the cases, since the
resulting bounding boxes are smaller. , The text object is in its own
right quite slow in CSG, so using single letters reduces the strain a
lot.


Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
Personal e-mail : pet### [at] vipbg
TAG      e-mail : pet### [at] tagpovrayorg

Post a reply to this message