Ron Parker <par### [at] fwicom> wrote in message news:37e14498@news.povray.org...
> On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 14:23:55 -0500, Bob Hughes wrote:
> >I'm not totally inner workings savy, but yes, from what I understand
> >the visible scene is calculated so the other stuff can be dropped out.
> >That makes for a change in parse I believe even when just viewpoint
> >changes.
>
> Nope.  But vista buffers are view-angle dependent.  Still, there's not
> currently any way to save the results of the parse.  My understanding
> is that it wouldn't save as much time as it might seem anyway.

Why not?  Parsing on a scene I'm working with takes >1.5 hours.

-John Van

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