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29 Jul 2024 04:19:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Method to make spherical planetoid looking things  
From: omniVERSE
Date: 30 Dec 1999 08:51:21
Message: <386b6359@news.povray.org>
"omniVERSE" <inv### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
news:3868fbb9@news.povray.org...
> Just going from K=K+0.01 changed to K=K+0.11 or 0.12 is a great *decrease*
in
> render time.  I tried lowering the two transmit 1's to 0.9 and it sped up
> also, just didn't look the same anymore.
> I didn't render a good size either, but it looks like a candidate for a
> comet nucleus made up of rounded chunks of opaque ice to me.
> I'm a little surprised how slow this was, being just 100 spheres, all in
the
> intersecting parts I guess.  I checked out using a 'union' wrapped around
> the while loop and it only seemed to help imperceptably (merge makes it
all
> but disappear).


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