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5 Sep 2024 04:17:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: need 4ghz cpu to render pillar  
From: John VanSickle
Date: 28 Sep 2001 19:10:23
Message: <3BB504CD.EA191E6B@hotmail.com>
Mike Williams wrote:
> 
> I did a scene a while ago with hundreds of small cylindrical holes in
> a flat slab and experimented with cutting the slab into smaller pieces
>  with just a few holes in each piece. It turned out that the rendering
>  was fastest when each piece was so small that it contained only one
>  hole.

You can also use one big slab, but merge groups of the cylinders and
put bounding boxes around each group.

Regards,
John
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