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1 Aug 2024 08:22:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: platonic solids as solids  
From: Mike Williams
Date: 11 Dec 2005 01:09:27
Message: <LLLRtPALJ8mDFwng@econym.demon.co.uk>
Wasn't it Paul Bourke who wrote:
>> I've created the first three platonic solids as "solid" objects
>> in POVRay so I do CSG operations on them. Before I give myself a
>> headache doing the icosahedron and dodecahedron I though I would
>> ask if someome has already done it.....and would care to share them.
>
>Woops, they seem to be defined in "shapes2.inc"

The "bounded_by" that's in "shapes2.inc" is a good idea. Without it,
objects that are created from the intersections of infinite planes are
themselves considered to be infinite.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure


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