Greg M. Johnson <gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote:
: Say I want to have a solid 3D object made up of thousands of cubes.

: Is the best way to do this with 12 meshes, a cube, or what?

  You mean 12 triangles?

  As far as I know the most efficient way is to create all the triangles
into one mesh (I mean that if you want 1000 cubes you don't make a mesh
made of 12 triangles and then copy it 1000 times, but instead you put
all the 12*1000 triangles into one mesh).
  You will be surprised how fast this mesh renders, no matter if it has
12*1000 triangles or 12*1000000 triangles (well, the parsing time gets
longer, of course, but that's not so important here; the parsing time
gets longer anyways, no matter what method you use).

  If the mesh must be solid (ie. useable in CSG) you'll have to use MegaPov
for that.

: Just how worse are the superellipsoids, and how much better are the
: improvements to them?

  Superellipsoids are very slow. I don't know if megapov has any
improvements in its speed, but it's always very slow (much slower than
a box and very much slower than a mesh if you have a lot of copies of it).

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

Post a reply to this message