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  Re: example uses of min_extent() max_extent()  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 12 Sep 2008 16:29:42
Message: <48cad135@news.povray.org>
wyleu wrote:
> However this is a bounding box of an object, can I extract the
> co-ordinates of the bounding box as it's projected onto the viewing plane
> so I can provide these as co-ordinates to a function like html ISMAP and
> USEMAP to allow hypertext like functions from web background pages?

No, you can't.

However, you can render an alternate image putting solid colors on objects;
either ambient 1 and no lights, or Quality=0 setting (+q0); and no
antialias; then it would be relatively easy to post-process that image and
find the rectangle that fully fits the solid-colored area.


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