Thanks, clipka

So for min_extent/max_extent a cylinder/cone is treated as a box. This would
account for the result for min_extent (Cylinder2).z = -1.4, since that is half
the height of a diagonal of a bounding box of a cylinder with radius = 1 when
rotated by an angle, in my instance, atan(4/3). I should have guessed
since the Ray->Shape Intersection output in the message window for the
two cylinders actually describes 1 Cone/Cylinder and 1 Box. Cylinders
created along an axis and then transformed otherwise keep the accurate
orthogonal dimensions of the bounding box.

It seems that a correcting function could be applied to this discrepancy.

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