compileIt for revolution?

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Jun 22 19:59:47 EDT 2005


Scott Rossi wrote:
> Recently, Richard Gaskin  wrote:
> 
> 
>>>i have the patience to create these graphics and see them rendered. But when
>>>it comes to getting rid of them, no way! And the clearGraphics routine took
>>>foreever! 200 graphics per second... You do the math - many minutes wasted
>>>waiting to create a better pattern.
>>>
>>>The trick was to create all the graphics in a group.
>>>when the graphic is done, delete the group.
>>>
>>>300000 graphics deleted in 2 seconds.
>>
>>And as Geoff Canyon discovered, you can go one step further by drawing
>>all polygons as a single object, but just including a blank line in the
>>points property wherever you want a discontiguous object.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, this won't work for Xavier's case since each object is shaded
> with a different color, but it's worth noting as you say that sometimes
> multiple vector objects can be replaced with one.

True.  If there are 30,000 different colors being used my hunch is that 
you could but that in half with very few human eyes able to discern any 
difference.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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