In article <2+c6A### [at] econymdemoncouk> , Mike Williams 
<mik### [at] nospamplease>  wrote:

> What does evaluate
> still do that causes such a large increase in render times?

All the evaluate did in your scene up to beta 6 was to activating the
printing of the max_gradient.  The parameters didn't have any effect.  They
only used to have an effect when no max_gradient was specified.  With beta 7
and later evaluate always works like evaluate, no matter if max_ gradient
has been specified or not.  It was all explained in the "Isosurfaces *much*
slower in beta 7?" thread.  The documentation hasn't been updated because
the issue with max_gradient messages when using evaluate has not been fully
solved yet.

    Thorsten

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