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From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 31 Jul 2004 05:05:02
Message: <cefn6q$3ga$1@chho.imagico.de>

Andrew C on Mozilla wrote:
> 
> My current work is on dividing space into lots of cubes, and figuring 
> out which of those cubes actually contain some surface. It seems if I 
> tell POV-Ray to render only those cubes, I get *massive* render speedups...

Well - you have just reinvented bounding trees...

http://www.tu-bs.de/%7Ey0013390/fast_iso/patch.html

Christoph

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