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6 Aug 2024 19:33:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: CSG speed question  
From: Hugo
Date: 14 Feb 2002 19:05:49
Message: <3c6c50dd$1@news.povray.org>
> > But I can say, in general you should stay away from "merge" and
> > use "union" instead.
>
> It seems to me I read somewhere that merges were faster...?!

In SOME cases, merge is faster, but be careful with this.. I've never
experienced a case yet where merge wasn't 2 times slower in my scene.

> Hmm too bad you can't put groups inside of CSGs, or I could
> do away with a lot of the CSGs I have...

Sorry I'm not sure what you mean by that.. But I just posted an additional
comment about grouping objects - group them only with "union"...!  :o)


Regards
Hugo


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