> 
> Well, I have an idea around this problem. In the truth it's even feature
> request. What about changing definition of Inside method of objects ?
> I mean if it could return not only yes/no to describe object but variable
> float value to describe distance (not in units) to surface just like
> isosurface does. So positive value means outside, zero means surface, negative
> means inside.
> 

This would be nice, but for shapes like text a combination of lots of
different functions would be necessary, therefore it would be quite slow,
even though having this internally instead of in user defined functions
would probably be faster.

Christoph

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