POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Parse Error: Degenerate cylinder : Re: Parse Error: Degenerate cylinder Server Time
3 Aug 2024 08:14:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Parse Error: Degenerate cylinder  
From: Chambers
Date: 30 Mar 2004 17:39:07
Message: <4069f70b$1@news.povray.org>
"Florian Brucker" <tor### [at] torfboldcom> wrote in message
news:4066e9b2$1@news.povray.org...
> I just wanted to ask if it is possible to change the parse time error
>
> "Parse Error: Degenerate cylinder, base point = apex point."
>
> into a simple warning. The same goes for a mesh without triangles. I
> don't see why the render has to be stopped in such a case. IMHO it is
> good to inform the user about it, but rendering could go on, couldn't it?


It's especially odd because other non-viewable objects, such as cylinders
and spheres with radii of 0 or even negative numbers, don't even generate
warnings.  Perhaps its something with how the cylinder is processed
internally, that is, what is the function for a cylinder?  It might be
something that just chokes when the two points are the same.

-- 
...Chambers
http://www.geocities.com/bdchambers79


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