POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : bounded_by ? : Re: bounded_by ? Server Time
2 Jul 2024 09:32:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: bounded_by ?  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 4 Nov 1999 08:06:10
Message: <slrn82315u.v8.ron.parker@ron.gwmicro.com>
On 4 Nov 1999 04:27:18 -0500, Nieminen Juha wrote:
>In povray.general Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote:
>: it's a bug that POV tries to remove it in the first place,
>
>  Or at least a design flaw. If I specify a bounding box, that means that
>I really want to use that bounding box and don't want povray to remove it.

In that case, specify -UR.  I don't consider that a design flaw, as it can
be useful in removing unnecessary ray-intersection tests.  My point was that 
even if you want POV to remove unnecessary bounds, it shouldn't try to remove 
a manual bounding object for an object it can't find a better bound for.

-- 
These are my opinions.  I do NOT speak for the POV-Team.
The superpatch: http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/superpatch/
My other stuff: http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html


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