POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : The Box Object : Re: The Box Object Server Time
13 Aug 2024 03:18:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Box Object  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 18 Nov 1998 08:31:27
Message: <3652cc2f.0@news.povray.org>
On Wed, 18 Nov 1998 00:05:36 -0800, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
>  Truth is it produced nothing. It parses just fine but
>nothing appears. I also tried using 2D vectors. This did
>produce a result exactly as one would expect. It produced
>a single face of the box.
>  How would Pov determine the inside of the object ? Would
>it just take the normalized vector as it would a plane ?

Which normal would it use?  In an abstract sense, both faces
of the box occupy the same space.  

Most likely, this object will behave almost exactly like a
polygon object.  You can use it in CSG, but it wouldn't be
very useful except perhaps in a union.  (Don't try merge -
coincident surfaces.)


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