Lutz Kretzschmar wrote in message <35c### [at] 19417421410>...
>Hi Erik, you recently wrote in moray.win:
>
>> Also, what about getting Moray to export real meshes
>> to povray instead of turning it all into a huge set of triangles which
>> takes forever to parse?
>What's the difference between a mesh and 'a huge set of triangles'?


A mesh object is more memory efficient, especially when it's being re-used.
For example, it might take 2k of memory for the initial mesh, then all other
copies of the mesh are simply "pointers" to the original. Whereas the same
object as a set of triangles would require 2k for each object.

It's also a bit faster, considering the way unions work.

It's as simple as replacing
union

<triangle data>
}

with
mesh

<triangle data>
}

>- Lutz
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