On Fri, 10 Aug 2001 07:10:42 +0200, Yadgar <j.b### [at] ndhnet> wrote:

>Does that mean that I can save such an amount of memory even when I
>construct my standard "primitive" (e. g. a box) from triangles and then
>place and scale it randomly 

A box only takes two vectors (six floats + two pointers), a sphere
takes a vector and two floars (center, radius and radius squared) etc.
Even if you do some savings this way, they will be marginal.

>- or does it work only with *identical* copies?

Identical in the sense that they have the same base object but
different transformations, since POV will then only store the original
once and then the transformation for each copy.


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