POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Cheap Sweep : Re: Cheap Sweep Server Time
16 Aug 2024 02:26:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Cheap Sweep  
From: Shay
Date: 27 Mar 2002 17:29:58
Message: <3ca247e6$1@news.povray.org>
Hugo <hua### [at] post3teledk> wrote in message
news:3ca2244f$1@news.povray.org...
>
> I'm looking forward to see if these sweeps are made up of thousands of
small
> spheres, a few hundred cylinders, or a bunch of torus? Eventually torus's
> would be the best solution (?).
>

The sweeps are made up mostly of tori. The first sweep has only 196 objects,
not sure about the second. This is what makes the render so fast.

> I've seen a macro for this already, but it
> uses it's own kind of spline, that acts a little wierd.
>

Do you remember where you saw this? I would very much like to take a look.

 -Shay


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