Mark Wagner <mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:
: Add a 'static' object modifier to the language that can be applied to
: anything, for example:

: sphere{<0,0,0>, 1 pigment{ rgb 1} static}

:  POV-Ray will not reparse any object that contains that modifier after the
: first frame of an animation.  If you apply it to an object that does get
: changed over the course of an animation, that's your problem, not POV's.

  I think this is not enough either. Povray will have to parse the entire
file anyways if there's some non-static objects (for example at the end of
the file). One solution to this is, of course, to keep a copy of the scene
in memory with all static objects removed.
  There's another problem: If all objects generated in a #while-loop are
static, that loop doesn't need to be parsed but just once. But how do you
tell this to povray?

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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