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11 Oct 2024 09:16:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: instantiation in various 3d formats  
From: Warp
Date: 27 Oct 2007 10:19:10
Message: <472348de@news.povray.org>
Gilles Tran <gitran_nospam_@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> AFAIK, instantiation is not a property of the file format, but a feature of 
> the renderer.

  If you tell the renderer "copy this mesh 1000 times over the scene" (but
the mesh data is kept only once in memory), thus getting a nice scene, and
then you want to save this scene into a file, how do you do that if the
file format doesn't support saying "copy this mesh here" commands?

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                                                          - Warp


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