Nieminen Juha wrote:
> 
> Felix Petriconi <fel### [at] ruhr-uni-bochumde> wrote:
> : (I know that there is
> : a utility by Chris Colefax which reduces the number of triangles.)
> 
>   If you are talking about the triangle mesh compressor, two points:
>   1) It doesn't reduce the number of triangles, it just stores them in a
> more compact format.
>   2) The macro by Chris just reads the compressed data into povray (and
> creates the mesh), it doesn't generate it.

It should also be noted that the mesh compressor utility while reducing
file sizes also has a minor disadvantage of increasing parsing times and
adds a bit of overhead to the memory usage of the program. I have not found
it considerable enough to worry about yet but with extremely large mesh
files this extra burden could exceed your memory capabilities.

-- 
Ken Tyler

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