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  Re: Isosurfaces *much* slower in beta 7?  
From: Warp
Date: 31 Oct 2001 17:40:52
Message: <3be07df3@news.povray.org>
Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
: Actually it doesn't matter if you have evaluate in there at all now. As far
: as reporting the found maximum gradient is concerned, it now uses some
: estimation* as to what can be considered a significant difference and only
: (but always) reports the suggested maximum gradient.

  So the evaluate keyword is currently obsolete (and actually not used
for everything)?
  If it doesn't slow the rendering of the isosurface by any considerable
amount then I think that it's a very good approach.

-- 
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -


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