Francois Labreque wrote:

> OK.  The choice of numbers wasn't probably the best to illustrate my
> point, but I think it came across nevertheless.   Anyway, most of my
> boxes look more like this:
>
> box {
>     < 2.875, 5.5, 3.6333333 >
>     < 7.142857, 9.3, 4 >
> }
>
> Which is wayyyyyyyyy easier than
>
> box {
>     scale < 4.267857, 3.8, 0.2666666 >
>     translate < 7.642857, 9.8, 4.5 >
> }

I suppose it depends what you're using it for. If you want a box of a
certain size at a certain location, use the latter. If the endpoints of the
box are of significance, use the former. Like when I do LEGO stuff, the
endpoints are the extent of the piece, so I use the first one...

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