en ce 2008/04/16 06:29 :)   ->

> Since the random generator in POV is deterministic, this will fail
> in deterministic ways... it won't introduce jittered movment to an
> animation for example, but yeah, it can fail to detect collisions if
> the rez used is low. Something like 30000 is enough to detect hard
> cases, but it's quite slow for that... I was thinking about re-writing
> it to use trace, that might improve the accuracy a bit. 
> 
> 
You pick a random point on one of the faces of the bounding box and shoot toward 
the oposite face. Using the smalest face will probably help.
You exit on the first non-zero normal.
Advantage of using trace:
Advantage: you no longer test points but lines. One test will check millons of 
points.

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Alain
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