POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : bounded_by ? : Re: bounded_by ? Server Time
2 Jul 2024 08:54:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: bounded_by ?  
From: Lothar Esser
Date: 4 Nov 1999 10:34:47
Message: <3822F82E.AC651912@chop.swmed.edu>
Ron Parker wrote:

> On Wed, 03 Nov 1999 11:52:29 -0600, Lothar Esser wrote:
> >Should I simply ignore this warning or is there something I can do about
> >it.
>
> You can specify -UR on the command line to turn off unnecessary bounds
> removal but it's a bug that POV tries to remove it in the first place,
> and it might be considered a bug that it doesn't entirely succeed.
> I've crossposted this message to .bugreports, with followups back to
> ..general.
>
> [1] POV computes bbox at the end of Parse_Object_Mods
> [2] in Link_To_Frame, called by Parse_Frame after the object is completely
>     parsed
> --
>
    Thanks for the excellent comment. BTW, if this behavior is a glitch, then
it is also
present in POV-Ray 3.1. (I tested my code in POV-Ray  3.1 (SGI) but with the
+MV3 option
to indicate that it is old-style input ).
Thanks again.

>
>    Lothar Esser
>
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