"PM 2Ring" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> povray <pov### [at] almostbestwebnet> wrote:
> > PM 2Ring wrote:
> > > This group of stones is a single isosurface.

> > Is there a particular reason you desired to make all the stones
> > one isosurface?  it seems like you'd get a faster render time if
> > they were seperate objects.

>  isosurfaces can be faster than you might think. I have a sofa object
> derived from one of Jaime's LightSys demo scenes. The original is built
> from isosurface{f_rounded_box()}, I converted it to use superellipsoids,
> but the isosurface version was the faster! IIRC, I posted the scene file in
> p.b.i a couple of weeks ago; look for the very shiny blue sofa.

Here it is:  <web.4315a37135b6ce9d60c4f6d10@news.povray.org>

Time it for yourself.

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