"Greg M. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> Thanks, my render is now up to 14 minutes per 320 x 240 frame and I probably
> have less than 8000 cubes so far...
> 
> I vaguely remember posting about how people had improved the superellipsoid,
> hoping they'd made it as fast as a cube! Perhaps with about 40-200  triangles I
> could make a sort of rounded-cube approximation.

	As it is defined as a superel each point must be evaluated with the
squares of the point and solved for the normal and such. A cube is just
a plane not needing the extra steps.  There is your time difference. You
can't beat that except by pretesting for the unexpected condition that
the constants make it a cube and then treating it as a cube. So making
it a cube in the first place is expected of the user. 

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