POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Fluorapophyllite-(K) : Re: Fluorapophyllite-(K) Server Time
26 Apr 2024 11:31:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fluorapophyllite-(K)  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 28 Oct 2021 11:27:11
Message: <617ac14f$1@news.povray.org>
Op 28-10-2021 om 16:38 schreef Thomas de Groot:
> Strange. Somehow, I must have changed something, but now renders take a 
> much longer time, more in the range of several hours (and photons jumped 
> to 3Gb). I do not remember what is different. :-/
> 
Found the culprit! :-)

I had changed 'union' to 'merge' in the mesh2 object. In this particular 
case of well-behaving crystal faces, that is unnecessary. The render 
speed difference is dramatic indeed.

-- 
Thomas


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