POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : contemporary photorealism : Re: contemporary photorealism Server Time
2 Aug 2024 16:26:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: contemporary photorealism  
From: "Jérôme M. Berger"
Date: 21 Dec 2004 04:36:11
Message: <41c7ee8b$1@news.povray.org>
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Christoph Hormann wrote:
| I would like to repeat that when using the same pattern for several
| properties (which will very often be the case) this will result in
| unnecessary pattern evaluations.  You could try to introduce a kind of
| pattern cache for this but this would be quite complicated.
|
	Nobody said to *replace* the current implementation with these. It
could conceivably be an addition in which case it would still be
possible to use texture maps when one wants the same pattern for all
the attributes and have only one pattern evaluation in that case.

		Jerome
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