Re: Does the number of objects matter?

[Frank C <li...@si...>]

On 14-Jun-04, at 9:24 PM, Keith Wiley wrote:

> Say I have a scene with some number of objects in it.  Say this scene 
> can be represented in two different ways.  One is a single huge 
> object, and another is a bunch of little objects that visually appear 
> identical to the large object...
>
> Assume the number of vertices, edges, what not is absolutely identical.

It will almost always be more efficient to use fewer objects. This was 
discussed in detail very recently: 
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=8703543>

Frank.