Hi all.

I've been staring at this for 20 minutes and I'm obviously missing 
something really obvious. Would one of you be kind enough to point out 
my mistake?

I want to stand a box on one corner (so the lowest corner is at the 
origin) and rotate it about the y axis (which should pass directly 
through the upper/lower corners).

box {-.5,.5
	texture{BoxTexture}
	rotate 45*z
	rotate 45*x
	translate y*pow(3,.5)/2
	rotate -y*(30+clock*360)
}

I also have a plane {y,0} with a reflective texture. The tip of the 
reflection and box come _very_ close but do not quite touch (more than 
an AA artifact).

When the cube is rotated, the top/bottom corners describe small circles 
horizontally - Which leads me to conclude I haven't rotated the cube 
correctly - but 45/45 seems intuitively correct?

What am I doing wrong when orientating the box?

Sorry to have to ask such a simple question - I've just been staring at 
it too long

Many thanks in advance

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