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From: LibraryMan
Subject: More than one way to skin a small domestic animal
Date: 20 Mar 2003 12:45:04
Message: <web.3e79fd17164e5a4b738e706a0@news.povray.org>

I'm not anywhere where I can test this myself, so I thought I'd troll for
guesses by those more experienced than myself.

I'd like to create either a prism or lathe obj., with a combination of some


My question is this:
Is it quicker to union a couple of prism objects, some of which are
linear-splines, others of which are CSG differences of boxes and cylinders
--

OR

is it possible to substitute the CSG diff above with quadratic or cubic


Sorry my math is so abysmal that I couldn't figure this out for myself --
never got past Algebra II in high school...

--LibraryMan

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From: Tom Melly
Subject: Re: More than one way to skin a small domestic animal
Date: 21 Mar 2003 04:16:38
Message: <3e7ad876@news.povray.org>

"LibraryMan" <mrm### [at] attnet> wrote in message
news:web.3e79fd17164e5a4b738e706a0@news.povray.org...
> I'm not anywhere where I can test this myself, so I thought I'd troll for
> guesses by those more experienced than myself.
>

Honestly no idea about the specific question, but I suspect that the most
important optimisation would be efficient manual bounding.

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