In article <3e594ae8@news.povray.org>,
 "Vadim Sytnikov" <syt### [at] rucom> wrote:

> It's called loop unrolling... He (Jellby) is right, your code is not
> supposed to work; I'm surprised you say it compiles.

Huh? He didn't. Nobody mentioned anything compiling, which is good, 
because POV doesn't compile anything. He did say it didn't work.


> Enclosing this in a 'union' is not that necessary -- as long as you, at
> least, put your 'translate' statements inside 'cylinder' blocks.

Putting it in a union has the advantage that the entire group of 
cylinders can be transformed and textured as a single object. Not 
strictly necessary, but more flexable.

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