POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : CSG Union causes major slow-down : Re: CSG Union causes major slow-down Server Time
10 Aug 2024 01:28:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: CSG Union causes major slow-down  
From: Warp
Date: 24 May 2000 09:17:50
Message: <392bd67d@news.povray.org>
Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote:
: It's represented as a merge.  There are special cases in the code for
: merges.  IIRC, it could be represented as the inverse of the intersections
: of the inverses of the constituent objects, but it isn't.

  What is the algorithm for the ray-intersection test for merges (briefly
and clearly exaplained, if possible :) )? I'm interested in knowing it.

-- 
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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