POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Max_Intersections? : Re: Max_Intersections? Server Time
3 Aug 2024 10:18:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Max_Intersections?  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 3 Mar 2004 12:14:41
Message: <40461281$1@news.povray.org>
In article <4045de39$1@news.povray.org> , "Tim Nikias v2.0" <tim.nikias (@)
nolights.de> wrote:

> Thanks very much. Why can't you just save one intersection and then, for
> every new intersection, just replace the stored one when it is closer? Too
> much calculation? But that has to be done in any case...

The short answer is that you sometimes need more than just the first
intersection.

    Thorsten

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