POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Geometric puzzle : Re: Geometric puzzle Server Time
5 Sep 2024 07:23:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Geometric puzzle  
From: Darren New
Date: 17 Dec 2009 11:52:15
Message: <4b2a61bf$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> Yes, because crude approximations to cylindrical columns look so much 
> more photo-realistic than actually cylindrical columns. Oh, wait...

Consider what happens if your "approximation" results in sub-pixel-sized 
triangles. Then it becomes no more an approximation than yours does, 
considering *your* picture is also made out of pixels.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Human nature dictates that toothpaste tubes spend
   much longer being almost empty than almost full.


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