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2 Nov 2024 05:17:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Locating an Object  
From: Vaclav Cermak
Date: 7 Apr 2000 07:07:31
Message: <38EDC11E.DFF95D13@itam.cas.cz>
In MegaPOV you can trace line and find its intersection
with any object (it returns point of intersection and
normal vector of objects surface).

Regards

Disnel

Peter Houston wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to determine the location of an object after it has been
> transformed.
> 
> I have objects that are chained together and are each rotated individually
> then they are all rotated and translated together.  What I am trying to
> determine is the vector of the end of the chain.
> 
> The only way I can think of doing it is to reverse all of the
> transformations, but I don't really want to do that if I can help it :)
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter H.


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