POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.binaries.images: Basket-weaving (fun with spline objects): Re: Isosurface

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From: Ken
Date: 26 Oct 2000 20:25:10
Message: <39F8CB91.2CBA4460@pacbell.net>

Christoph Hormann wrote:

> Concerning efficiency, both a macro tree and a (hypothetical) isosurface have
> advantages, the macro tree would probably render faster as a single object
> (assuming both are equally complicated), but when placing a lot of trees in one
> scene, the isosurface has strong advantages because of fewer memory use.

LSystmes were designed for this purpose but have a bit of a learning
curve involved. Too bad there are no really good LSystem modelling
programs available.

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