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1 Jul 2025 04:39:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Static Warp Shields  
From: Roman Reiner
Date: 16 Jun 2008 14:15:00
Message: <web.4856ad02e7b65d9072c2cb80@news.povray.org>
"alphaQuad" <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> Can anyone show how to get distance to an egg shape given a vector of any
> direction?
> (center to shield impact point)

"distance to egg shape" and "center to shield impact point" isn't quite the same
thing. i guess you want to get the point where a beam hits the shield, right?
for that i'd rather use trace() than struggling with the math.

Regards Roman


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