On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:56:06 +0100, "Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba"
<abx### [at] abxartpl> wrote:

>I just wonder how keyword "open" in cylinder statement influences speed of
>rendering - I have a lot of cylinders with not visible bases - is it worth to
>add some extra characters to type "open" and increase file size and speed of
>parsing and typing :-) to achive a little faster rendering ?

Do some testing :) It should be a little bit faster because the caps
are ray-shape-intersection-tested separately (if the cylinder is not
open).


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