POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : hemisphere : Re: hemisphere Server Time
30 Jul 2024 10:19:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: hemisphere  
From: gonzo
Date: 15 Jun 2004 14:05:00
Message: <web.40cf39d319bfb51fa0c272b50@news.povray.org>
"Hughes, B." <omn### [at] charternet> wrote:
> Perhaps imprecise, being so short-lived, but I believe it is showing the
> introduction of the box is actually causing a loss of optimization or
> something. I don't know the truth behind the numbers; it just looks like the
> plane has an advantage, at least in this case.

This may go right to something I have wondered for a while.  When using a
plane in CSG, how is the bounding box determined?  Per the docs regarding
manual bounding, the automatic bounding uses the size of the objects used
in the CSG, but I'm thinking here that infinite is not used...

RG


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