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From: Reinhard
Subject: Parser warning
Date: 23 Jun 2008 06:40:43
Message: <485f7dab$1@news.povray.org>
Hello,

Can anyone tell me what that mean and how I can solve it:
File: C:\PROGRAM FILES\POV-RAY FOR WINDOWS V3.6\include\Explode.inc 
Line: 187
Parse Warning: Degenerate CSG bounding box (not used!).

It comes from the explode.inc from Chris Colefax.

Thank you,
Reinhard


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From: Chris B
Subject: Re: Parser warning
Date: 23 Jun 2008 07:08:53
Message: <485f8445$1@news.povray.org>
"Reinhard" <rpr### [at] gmxnet> wrote in message 
news:485f7dab$1@news.povray.org...
> Hello,
>
> Can anyone tell me what that mean and how I can solve it:
> File: C:\PROGRAM FILES\POV-RAY FOR WINDOWS V3.6\include\Explode.inc Line: 
> 187
> Parse Warning: Degenerate CSG bounding box (not used!).
>
> It comes from the explode.inc from Chris Colefax.
>
> Thank you,
> Reinhard

To improve performance POV-Ray uses object bounding to reduce the number of 
objects it needs to check when tracing rays. Explode.inc doesn't seem to 
manually specify any bounding box, so I assume that POV-Ray has tried to 
generate a bounding box automatically and it ended up with a box where one 
or more dimensions was zero, so it's not bothered using it and has continued 
without a bounding box for that CSG object.

This shouldn't impact the resulting image, but may result in the rendering 
speed being less optimised.

Regards,
Chris B


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