"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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> Tom Melly <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote:
> : How about "all objects have a point of origin and that is what they
rotate
> : about when rotated" or something similiar?
>
>   Isn't this true? Every object has indeed this point: <0,0,0>
>

Mmm, yes. I should have phrased it better. Also, thinking about it, the
misconception affects new-users and scaling rather than rotation - e.g.

sphere{<2,2,2>, 1 scale 10} - hey, where did my sphere go?

>   I think a question covering this theme has been dealt already in the
VFAQ.
>

I'm sure you are right - might not some duplications between the VFAQ and
misconceptions be appropriate?

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