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5 Aug 2024 04:19:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Partial sweeping around an axis  
From: Christopher James Huff
Date: 4 Dec 2002 16:31:49
Message: <chrishuff-7370E3.16284704122002@netplex.aussie.org>
In article <3dee7287$1@news.povray.org>, "Slime" <slm### [at] slimelandcom> 
wrote:

> The math behind it would be exactly the same as the math behind a CSG.

Not really. An intersection or difference with 2 planes does quite a bit 
more than necessary for this, there are a lot of possible optimizations 
that could save some processing power. It is too little for too much of 
a special case to get anyone excited about it though...

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