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10 Aug 2024 01:19:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: CSG Union causes major slow-down  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 24 May 2000 09:02:01
Message: <slrn8inlcu.3k4.ron.parker@linux.parkerr.fwi.com>
On 24 May 2000 03:56:35 -0400, Warp wrote:
>Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote:
>: Nope.  It could be, but it's not
>
>  How is it represented then?

It's represented as a merge.  There are special cases in the code for
merges.  IIRC, it could be represented as the inverse of the intersections
of the inverses of the constituent objects, but it isn't.

>  I remember this was a question in the 'hard-core povrayer test'. Someone
>said it's represented as an intersection of inverted objects or something
>similar, if I remember correctly.

Difference is represented as an intersection.  Perhaps that's what you're
thinking of.

-- 
Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
These are my opinions.  I do NOT speak for the POV-Team.


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