Quote - I guess that depends on what you mean by "...when the quality of the results of either method will be comparable..." .  Anyway, I'll leave that discussion until after some testing.

BTW, just an FYI (for future reference) I created a simple disc prop with 36 segments and wrote a little python script to see what the dot-products were (it's actually the cosine of the angle between the 2 rays), so this chart may come in handy:

Yeh, I should have stated, when the amount of cleanup required for the two versions will be equivalent.  This only applies, IMO, in a case where you know you're not preparing a final correlation, but a transitional one which will be used to help generate a better final comparison.  The final comparison should almost always be with ray-casting.

That's a great list!  Thank you for that!  I like to be able to see what I'm doing.  And I have this odd liking for dot products.  I think they're really neat.  :laugh:

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.