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> "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?

It's just that for the layman a cylinder is not a more complex shape than a
sphere. Even for a non-layman in fact... Both equations are very similar
after all. I don't dispute the fact that it's computationally more
expensive, but the difference in rendering time reported by Greg is really
big (x 10 !!!).

G.


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