POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Collision detection: will this work?: Re: Collision detection: will this work?

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From: Ron Parker
Date: 6 Sep 2000 11:31:09
Message: <slrn8rcpkb.1f7.ron.parker@fwi.com>

On Wed, 06 Sep 2000 11:16:20 -0400, Greg M. Johnson wrote:
>Would this work? I am afraid that it will not because povray (megapov),
>I fear, is very lazy about giving true information in the min &
>max_extent functions....

You are right; it will not work, and for (essentially) the reasons you 
note.  You wouldn't want it to not be lazy, by the way: it would get 
much much slower if it did.

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Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.

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