On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 19:09:43 +0200, Christoph Hormann
<Chr### [at] schunteretctu-bsde> wrote:

>
>Because I needed some simple rectangle shape for a scene I am working on
>and because it is used about 1000 times in the scene, I tried some
>different possibilities building that shape and checked
>memory-use/tracing time.  
>
>It is just a very quick test on a concrete scene, differences in time
>are quite low, so you probably can not say anything definitive from
>these values (did not want to wait longer :-).  BTW, scene also contains
>many other objects.  
>
>Any comments/ideas ?

You've missed one. A zero-thickness box (yes it works). Try something
like box { <-1,0,-1>, <1,0,1> } and see what happens. It should render
faster than a regular box.


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