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>> > POV-Ray, however, handles mathematical primitives (such as boxes and
>> > planes) and their CSG. Rounding their corners is a problem which is
>> > several orders of magnitude harder.
>
>> But not impossible, look at any CAD software that manages it with
>> mathematically defined CSG.
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> CAD software always tesselate their geometry before rendering. They do
> not
> render untesselated mathematical surfaces.
That's only to render quickly though, internally all surfaces are stored as
mathematical descriptions. In theory you could write a raytracer to render
these surface descriptions directly with no tesselation. In fact, if you
create a shape with rounded edges in a CAD program, you can export it to a
common interchange format (STEP) which is plain text. In that you will see
that the solid is completely defined by mathematical curves and surfaces, no
tesselation.
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