On Tue, 03 Sep 2002 09:57:56 -0400, Shay quoth:


> Mark Wagner <mar### [at] gtenet> wrote in message
> news:pan### [at] gtenet...
>>
>> Ten hours of parsing?
>>
>>
> Damn! What kinds of operations are you doing for ten hours? I did a sort
> of about 100k vertices this weekend and though that was long at 8
> minutes!
> 
> If I had to guess, I'd say you were doing some type of guess and check
> placement algorithm or some type of incremental function minimizing
> operation.

Well, I've never actually gone to 10+ hours of parsing, but I've come
close with photon tracing with my "teardrop prism" scene, and I've had
several instances of 2+ hour parsing with placing large numbers of
objects on a heightfield with collision detection.  I've also canceled a
scene involving the Surface Subdivision macros after estimating a parsing
time of 33 days.

-- 
Mark

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