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From: Rune
Date: 8 Sep 2000 16:16:30
Message: <39b9491e@news.povray.org>
"Chris Huff" wrote:
> > Would it be practical to work out a way of bounding glows in
> > order to add them to the hierarchy and speed up rendering?
>
> No.
> As they are now, they are very fast: you can have thousands of
> them with only a small impact on render time

Just remember that "turbulence 0" will *not* be ignored, so if you don't use
turbulence be sure to remove it completely! After I figured that out I
didn't think much about speed issues anymore...

Rune
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