Bill DeWitt wrote:
> 
> "Francois Labreque" <fla### [at] attglobalnet> wrote :
> >
> > Hum....  I do get your point and in some cases it could be a good idea,
> > but
> >
> > box {
> >     scale < 2, 2, 2 >
> >     translate < 5, 5, 5 >
> > }
> >
> > is actually more characters than
> >
> > box {
> >     < 5, 5, 5 >
> >     < 7, 7, 7 >
> > }
> >
> 
>     True, but how often do you do things like that? I almost -always- make
> objects at origin then scale and translate. The few times I don't are
> usually when I want to connect a cylinder or cone to certain points.

I nearly always create objects at their final size, apart from non equal
scaling.
But then I'd do sphere{0,5 scale<1,2,1>} rather than sphere{0,1
scale<5,10,5>}

PoD.

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