POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : volume calculations : Re: volume calculations Server Time
6 Oct 2024 16:14:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: volume calculations  
From: Warp
Date: 12 Jan 2007 12:49:37
Message: <45a7ca31@news.povray.org>
Mark Weyer <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> If you make the surface transparent and fill the interior with a uniformly
> emitting medium, then the sum over the pixels of an orthographic rendering
> should give you a reasonable approximation of the volume.

  How can a 2-dimensional projection of a 3-dimensional object give you
the volume of the object?

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                                                          - Warp


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