In article <3C6C4F59.4E398A13@scifi-fantasy.com>,
 "Timothy R. Cook" <tim### [at] scifi-fantasycom> wrote:

> It seems to me I read somewhere that merges were faster...?!

If the object is transparent, using a merge will avoid the texture and 
shadow computations for all the internal surfaces, and so can be faster 
than a simple union. Normally, a union is faster though.


> Hmm too bad you can't put groups inside of CSGs, or I could
> do away with a lot of the CSGs I have...

How does a union not work for this?

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