In article <3e05ff43$1@news.povray.org>, "Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> 
wrote:

> Besides, surely triangles render faster because pov has good mesh 
> optimisations?

Being well-optimized does not mean faster than everything else. The mesh 
optimizations are a huge benefit for large meshes, for very small ones 
they are mainly overhead, a simple union of triangles can be faster 
(though using "hierarchy off" could make the mesh faster again). For a 
polygon, the polygon primitive is the best primitive.

If the problem is just that numeric errors cause the points to be 
non-coplanar, it would probably be best to just project them to the 
right plane in POV. If a non-planar polygon is desired, the polygon 
object is just the wrong primitive.

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