POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Spherical blob components render faster : Re: Spherical blob components render faster Server Time
5 Aug 2024 06:14:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Spherical blob components render faster  
From: Ken
Date: 2 Nov 2002 19:33:36
Message: <3DC46EBA.AC7C405A@pacbell.net>
Christopher James Huff wrote:
> 
> "Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
> news:3DC### [at] pacbellnet...
> > I think it would be astonishing to presume that the average user would
> > know the internal workings of POV-Ray enough to come to the same
> > conclusion :)
> 
> OK, point taken, but even without all that, it seems like it should be
> expected that a more complex shape is going to be slower. Being "astonished"
> at it seems very strange...am I missing some meaning and reading things too
> literally?

From the average user vantage point I fail to see where a blob constructed
from cylinders is any more complex than a blob constructed from spheres.
After all, they are both simple basic shapes, are they not?

-- 
Ken Tyler


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