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  Re: Testing for intersection of two objects  
From: Warp
Date: 25 Jul 2006 19:37:23
Message: <44c6ab33$1@news.povray.org>
Mike the Elder wrote:
> Testing the min_extent (or max_extent) of the intesetion of the two objects
> seems to work pretty well.

   It works pretty well if it's enough to see if the bounding boxes
of the objects intersect.
   However, bounding box is not the same as the object. In some cases
the bounding boxes may intersect but the objects don't.


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