POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.text.tutorials : Rotate around central axis : Re: Rotate around central axis Server Time
2 May 2024 23:16:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Rotate around central axis  
From: Tom Melly
Date: 21 Dec 2000 07:46:14
Message: <3a41fb96@news.povray.org>
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
news:3a41f228@news.povray.org...
>
> union
> { sphere { <-.5,0,0>, 1 }
>   sphere { <1,0,.5>, 1 }
>   texture { Wood }
>   rotate <0,45,0>
> }
>
>   "Uh... What is the center of this object now? Is it <-.5,0,0>? Is it
> <1,0,.5>? Is it somewhere in the middle? What does the rotation actually
> do to this object?"

Exactly - it was running into this kind of issue with blobs that I realised
a) pov didn't work how I thought it did and b) the notion of objects having
a "center" was wrong.


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