Hi all,

I have a question about the use of recursive object-unions in povray.

This is what i want to do:

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My basic shape is made up from a sphere and 4 cylinders. And is
basically a ball with 8 pins sticking out of it (every 45 degrees, all
in one plane). See ascii diagram.

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I've created a union of these objects and can now use it like this:

union   { my_basic_shape
rotate <0 ,0 ,0>
scale <1.0, 1.0, 1.0>
translate <0.0, 0.0, 0.0>
}        

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The next thing i want to do is attach a scaled and rotated
my_basic_shape object-union to the end of each cylinder that sticks
out of the original my_basic_shape object-union. And repeat this for
the new objects, etc ..

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With the povray knowledge i have at this moment i would have to hard
code each separate object. But i'm sure this sort of thing can be done
using some kind of automated loop with variables, but i haven't been
able to find information about this so far.

If anyone could help me out with this, or point me to a site with
relevant information or a similar example i would really appreciate
it.

Best regards,
Rick D.

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