POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Re: crash when smooth heightfield : Re: crash when smooth heightfield Server Time
29 Jul 2024 12:17:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: crash when smooth heightfield  
From: Tom Melly
Date: 16 May 2002 12:12:07
Message: <3ce3da57$1@news.povray.org>
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message news:3ce3a478@news.povray.org...
>
> > No, in 2.0. (You challenged me into checking the docs ;-)
>
>   I quite clearly remember that in 2.2 you had to bound objects by hand
> if you wanted speed, but in 3.0 POV-Ray started to remove those user-specified
> bounding objects (because it thought it could do better than me).
>

Which doesn't nec. mean that 2.2 didn't have auto-bounding, but it would
indicate that it was a) a bit crap and b) the developers knew that.


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