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28 Jul 2024 16:24:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Superellipsoids not very efficient?  
From: Warp
Date: 7 Nov 2004 04:57:51
Message: <418df19f@news.povray.org>
Superellipsoids are indeed one of the slowest primitives in POV-Ray.

  Try replacing then with the round boxes found in shapes.inc (see
documentation) to see if it helps.

-- 
#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -


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