POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Merge vs. Union : Re: Merge vs. Union Server Time
6 Sep 2024 02:22:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Merge vs. Union  
From: Nieminen Juha
Date: 20 Sep 1999 06:32:51
Message: <37e60d53@news.povray.org>
Ron Parker <par### [at] fwicom> wrote:
: It's also
: possible that POV automatically ignores objects that are entirely
: further away than the closest intersection so far.  If it doesn't,
: it should.

  How can it know if the object is further or not without testing the
ray-object intersection?

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.