POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Don't we just love it when adding 88 warnings can speed up rendering by 6?: Re: Don't we just love it when adding 88 warnings can speed up rendering by 6?

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Don't we just love it when adding 88 warnings can speed up rendering by 6? : Re: Don't we just love it when adding 88 warnings can speed up rendering by 6?		Server Time 10 Aug 2024 15:24:34 EDT (-0400)

From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 30 Nov 1999 23:07:22
Message: <38449efa@news.povray.org>

In article <3844973A.817CAA02@enst.fr> , "Jerome M. BERGER" 
<jbe### [at] enstfr> wrote:

>  That's what just happened to me: POV complained that I added
> unnecessary bounding boxes to some unions but my rendering time went
> from 1511s to 252s...

There is a reason why these are warnings. User bounding for other objects -
most primitives like spheres - is not as efficient as the automatic bounding
and would cause a slow down. For unions (and a few other ones) this of
course doesn't always apply.

    Thorsten

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