POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Nested objects limitations : Re: For all those who actually answered! Server Time
29 Jul 2024 20:17:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: For all those who actually answered!  
From: Tim Nikias
Date: 6 Jan 2002 05:38:52
Message: <3C382901.C1FCF04A@gmx.de>
> I don't suppose there's any clever way you could define the density map
> for the media without all the overlapping spheres, is there?  As in,
> provide the density for a large container object that is the same as
> several smaller spheres, then use considerably fewer of these specially
> created container objects.  Instinctively, though, this would
> immediately suggest greatly increased render / parse / scene-writing
> times unless it is a trivial matter...

Well, one could perhaps put hundreds of media inside one container-object,
but I think POV doesn't want to handle that many (though I haven't tried,
but
I think it is mentioned somewhere that there is some limit).

Tim


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