Samuel Benge <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Without 
> the limitation of _having_ to use memory-hogging triangles, you are free 
> to add an incredible amount of detail to a scene using raytraced 
> primitives. Isosurfaces, height_fields, etc. allow a person to 
> accomplish feats that would be considered 'great' or unachievable by 
> those using only mesh modelers (nurbs, surface subdivision).

  High-end scanline renderers can render scenes with billions of
triangles without problems (because they have tons of memory
optimizations), and they often do it faster than POV-Ray.
  Primitives in POV-Ray consume memory as well. You can't have
billions of them.

  And no-one has said that scenes should be designed solely with
triangle modellers. Most of the great scenes in the HoF have models
made with high-end modellers *and* ones made from within POV-Ray.

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