The day I figure out that math is a day I am happy! :)

Grim
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
news:3a912fea@news.povray.org...
>   If you are able to model your object with a triangle mesh, the rendering
> speed will increase quite considerably.
>   Of course this is not easy in every case, but in many cases it's just
> a matter of work to create a (smooth) triangle mesh that corresponds to
> the object.
>   An example: Suppose that your object is a coffee cup made with the
difference
> of two cylinders and the handle of the cup made with a half-torus. Now you
> only have to create a mesh that corresponds to the "hollow" cylinder
> representing the body of the cup and another representing the half-torus
> representing the handle. Then just put all those triangles into a mesh and
> that's it. All this can be done in povray itself (with #while-loops and
> some math).
>
>   Just an alternative...
>
> --
> char*i="b[7FK@`3NB6>B:b3O6>:B:b3O6><`3:;8:6f733:>::b?7B>:>^B>C73;S1";
> main(_,c,m){for(m=32;c=*i++-49;c&m?puts(""):m)for(_=(
> c/4)&7;putchar(m),_--?m:(_=(1<<(c&3))-1,(m^=3)&3););}    /*- Warp -*/

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