Greg M. Johnson <gregj:-)56590@ao:-)l.com> wrote:
> Remco made me aware of this astonishing  fact in p.b.a.  Here is a scene
> file that makes it obvious.

> A compact stack of 250 cylinders renders in 73 seconds.
> A compact stack of 250 spheres renders in 6 seconds.

  I don't see what's so astonishing in this. One would expect that a more
complicated shape would render slower than a simpler one, and that's what
happened.
  Of course the difference in speed is a bit large, but still not
astonishing...

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#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -

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