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28 Jul 2024 22:19:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 3D mathematics question  
From: Christopher James Huff
Date: 8 Nov 2004 23:34:44
Message: <cjameshuff-44B729.23344508112004@news.povray.org>
In article <418fe747$1@news.povray.org>,
 Tor Olav Kristensen <tor### [at] TOBEREMOVEDgmailcom> wrote:

> Inverse trigonometric operations are slow.

In POV, the difference between an inverse trig operation and any other 
operation is likely to be overwhelmed by the overhead of parsing the 
script. Code that is simpler to parse is likely to be faster.

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Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
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