POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.text.scene-files : Improved GEM MACRO : Re: Improved GEM MACRO Server Time
28 Jul 2024 18:17:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Improved GEM MACRO  
From: Simen Kvaal
Date: 20 Oct 1999 04:23:13
Message: <380d7bf1@news.povray.org>
>  A suggestion: Use boxes instead of planes. It will probably speed up the
>rendering.
>


Planes are faster, given that they are bounded, which they are. Aren't boxes
just intersections of six planes? If you render a fairly complex gem with
this macro, with a simple, fast, texture, it will render quite fast!

Tell me if I am wrong.

(c:

Simen.


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