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28 Sep 2024 13:20:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Where have all the POVers gone?  
From: Fabien Mosen
Date: 3 Feb 2002 00:24:19
Message: <3C5CC903.2080504@skynet.be>
Warp wrote:

>   Secondly, the speed of the primitives doesn't help too much when you have
> complicated textures, reflection and refraction, radiosity...


It does.  Even a simple glass is much much quicker to render (with
caustics,...) if it's a mesh instead of a lathe or CSG.  If I wanted
to do a scene of, say, a shelf full of empty bottles, I would do
the bottles with meshes.

Fabien.


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