On 24 Aug 1999 04:17:16 -0400, Nieminen Juha wrote:
>  I started to read this tutorial and found the first error in less than
>one minute... :)
>  I quote:
>
>> bounded_by - This gives the isosurface a limit. For instance, if you make an
>> isosurface sphere that is larger than 1 at its radius, and you put 
>
>> bounded_by{ box{ <-1,-1,-1>,<1,1,1> } } 
>
>> in the isosurface statement, what do you think will happen? The box will
>> cut into the sphere, giving you an intersected box and sphere, the sphere
>> having 6 flat sides. 
>
>  I don't know if this works differently with isosurfaces since I have never
>used the superpatch, but if bounded_by works as usual, that's not true.

bounded_by doesn't work as usual.  In fact, some builtin functions, such as 
rounded_box, actually use the bounds to determine their size.  Not the best
design, I'll admit.

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