Andre Wesseling <wes### [at] mathuni-muensterde> wrote:
: Is there any technique implemented in POV-Ray (especially in version 3.1) that
: makes use of coherence? If so, which kind of coherence (spatial, temporal) is used?

  Or are you talking about the techniques sometimes used in scanline rendering?
For example temporal coherence in an animation means, IIRC, "render only those
parts of the image which changed with respect to the previous frame".

  POV-Ray doesn't use any of these tricks.

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#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
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N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -

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