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30 Jul 2024 02:23:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A little CSG help  
From: Mike Thorn
Date: 12 Nov 2004 07:06:48
Message: <4194a758$1@news.povray.org>
Mutley2003 wrote:
> fwiw, one of the sources of my confusion was that I did not realize that
> a plane had an inside and an outside, and hence I did not see that it could
> be used as a cutting object via difference.

This has confused me at times. Why do people often use planes (a huge 
infinite object) to do CSG or create more complex geometrical figures? 
Wouldn't it be easier in terms of size to use something a little 
smaller, like a box?

Or is rendering speed the answer?


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