POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Cathedrals : Re: Cathedrals Server Time
5 Sep 2024 01:20:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Cathedrals  
From: m a r c
Date: 1 Oct 2009 05:53:16
Message: <4ac47c0c@news.povray.org>

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> I was going to try to moddel some of this stuff in POV-Ray, but I don't 
> know - how much RAM does it take to describe 25 arches when each one is 
> made up of four-dozen torii segments? How many CSG operations is that? The 
> number of intersection tests per ray would be absurd...
>
> My head hurts.

I see what you mean :-)
http://www.stanford.edu/~dorris/photos/ely2.htm

Marc


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