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28 Jul 2024 16:19:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Superellipsoids not very efficient?  
From: Slime
Date: 7 Nov 2004 00:44:36
Message: <418db644$1@news.povray.org>
> question, but I'm just curious: is the superellipsoid really that
> inefficient of an object or is it just the fact that I have 1024 of them?

Simple way to find out: replace them with boxes and see if it's still slow.

Are you using a difference or intersection involving them, by any chance?
Sometimes those can be slow because they don't make use of the bounding
heirarchy.

 - Slime
 [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]


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