In article <401c5a0a$1@news.povray.org>, "Carl Hoff" <hof### [at] wtnet> 
wrote:

> One other question.  I've made a complicated CSG that takes days to render.
> I'm trying to speed it up.  While making it I defined all my cylinders as
> cones.  Would there be any gain in efficiency if I went back and replaced
> all the cones with cylinders that I could?

No. If the radii are nearly identical (within EPSILON of each other), 
the cone will be converted into a cylinder.

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