POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Placing random spheres (~330k in attachments) : Re: Placing random spheres (~330k in attachments) Server Time
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  Re: Placing random spheres (~330k in attachments)  
From: Trevor G Quayle
Date: 17 May 2006 12:55:01
Message: <web.446b544ef5b1f07d6c4803960@news.povray.org>
Ben Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
> Trevor G Quayle wrote:
> > Interestingly if you constrain the entire sphere volume to the given area
> > (20x20) rather than the center positions, the parse time triples...
> >
> > -tgq
> >
> >
>
> Rather than do that, why not just decrease the size of the Min and Max
> coordinates?  Ie, instead of using +/- <10,0,10>, use +/- <9.9,0,9.9>?
> I'd think that would be faster, and cleaner.
>
> ...Chambers

Actually this is what I did to test it.  Just making a comment on how filled
up the area is getting that that small of a change in area(~2.3%) has that
much of an impact on the parse time.

-tgq


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