In article <8ujb1ts0ro5h8l41asccr9rvaro1qgpnip@4ax.com>, Peter Popov 
<pet### [at] usanet> wrote:

> Actually a proximity function for meshes wouldn't be that slow. Come
> to think about it, you wouldn't need to trace any rays to find the
> distance to the mesh at any point in space.

It would be speedy compared to the current "shoot a bunch of samples" 
method, but compared to a sphere or box proximity function, it certainly 
would be slow.

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Christopher James Huff
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