Margus Ramst wrote:
> 
> Bonsai wrote:
> >
> > I wanted to do the sponge in pure csg. So I did a lot of differences, that
> > resulted in this long rendertime.
> >
> 
> Why differences? You should get *much* faster rendering if you created the
> sponge as an union, i.e. stack a lot of little blocks to make up the sponge
> structure, instead of progressively cutting holes out of one big block.

I did it that way once and while it was faster it wasn't signifigantly
faster. With that many edges you lose a lot of time doing anti-aliasing.

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