Tim Attwood <tim### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> Using extents of an object you can calculate the
> volume of the bounding box, then use a large number of
> random point samples within the bounding box to determine
> the percent of samples that are inside the object, then
> the volume can be estimated to be that percent of the
> bounding volume.

  If you want any accuracy at all, it would take a very LONG time.

  I would estimate that getting one additional decimal of accuracy
(or whichever base is used) requires O(n^3) more points to be sampled.
You can figure out that that number grows quite fast.

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