TinCanMan <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> 2) Is it worth it to do this conversion (i.e., I have an 8Mb mesh1 object)

  The advantage of having a mesh2 is a smaller file size and probably a
faster parsing. It does not affect render time or memory usage in any way.

  (Ok, that's not technically true. When parsing a mesh, POV-Ray uses some
temporary data structures which take some memory. However, I think that it
frees these when the parsing of the mesh is done and thus in the rendering
step there is not extra memory needed.)

-- 
#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -

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