POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Testing for intersection of two objects: Re: Testing for intersection of two objects

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From: Mike Williams
Date: 25 Jul 2006 10:56:57
Message: <BEkjeIAqCjxEFwTF@econym.demon.co.uk>

Wasn't it NEWS who wrote:
>i think you must read again ...
>
>i check the bounding  of the intersection ... and not the intersection of 2
>bounding ...

I think you missed this bit from earlier in the thread:

  POV calculates the intersection of the bounding boxes (because it can
  calculate that) and uses that as the bounding box for the intersection
  (which would be next to impossible to calculate in the general case). 

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

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