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29 Jul 2024 16:19:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: forcing POVray to ignore degenerate cylinders  
From: Sebastian H 
Date: 15 Feb 2006 04:02:39
Message: <43f2ee2f$1@news.povray.org>
Alain wrote:
> It's obvious that in that case, the axis of the cylinder is undefined: 
> it's impossible to know it's orientation. 

I second that. There's simply not enough information to define the
object. But why should POV make wild guesses of what it could have
been the user intended. Just drop the thing like a box/sphere of zero
volume. I would prefer just a warning message and no fatal error
in that case.

Sebastian


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