POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Cheap Sweep : Re: Cheap Sweep Server Time
16 Aug 2024 02:24:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Cheap Sweep  
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Date: 28 Mar 2002 03:09:16
Message: <jkj5au81gpdeinl89lg77i8n1qnrd6t36e@4ax.com>
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:29:57 -0600, "Shay" <sah### [at] simcopartscom> wrote:
>> I'm looking forward to see if these sweeps are made up of thousands of small
>> spheres, a few hundred cylinders, or a bunch of torus? Eventually torus's
>> would be the best solution (?).
>
> The sweeps are made up mostly of tori. The first sweep has only 196 objects,
> not sure about the second. This is what makes the render so fast.

btw: have you seen http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/MMRG/people/mdm/torpatch.html
iirc there was also include file equivalent torpatch.inc (by Ron Parker ?)

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