in news:cm3ccc$mgr$1@chho.imagico.de Christoph Hormann wrote:

> .obj files are text format as well - they will not be significantly 
> smaller than a mesh2.  If the files your modeller generates are much 
> larger the program is simply inefficient

If the exported mesh's are the same, yes, but there are programs that 
export different things when they export to .pov or .obj Exports to pov 
are always triangle mesh's exports to obj can often be polygon mesh'. It 
is not nessesceraly so that the mesh's are tesselated.
An other cause can be that when exporting from for example Silo, the pov 
export is the subdivided and tesselated mesh and the obj export is always 
the unsubdivided untesselated mesh.

Ingo

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