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30 Jul 2024 20:21:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Solid meshes in CSG  
From: Warp
Date: 13 Dec 2008 20:03:08
Message: <49445b4a@news.povray.org>
Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> A completely flat, 2D mesh will probably don't work in a CSG intersection or 
> difference.

> In you difference that mesh from a solid, you will remove zero volume, an 
> infinitely thin sheet from whatever other objet you may have.
> If you difference a solid from your mesh, it will cut a hole in it.

  You could say the same from the 'plane' primitive, but of course it
doesn't work like that.

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                                                          - Warp


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