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19 Aug 2024 02:22:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: yet another mengersponge...  
From: Ken
Date: 15 Mar 2001 15:11:19
Message: <3AB12251.3E39A808@pacbell.net>
Gilles Tran wrote:
> 
> Bonsai wrote:
> 
> > But when I want to do the cut away with a sphere it goes back to the 1 or 2

> 
> What about cutting away the (correctly positioned) individual parts first ? It
> should render faster than making the union first and cutting the union after.
> 
> One fun thing would be to make the sponge out of triangles... I would render
> very quickly I guess.

Been there. Done that. Didn't help render times much. Memory use did decrease
however.

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