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  Re: filling a bottle with fluid  
From: joe
Date: 20 Aug 2012 22:30:01
Message: <web.5032f1c2da492adaad797add0@news.povray.org>
"jhu" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
<snip>
> > With the liquid being slightly smaller than the cavity won't the air space
> > between the liquid and the wall be visible in some slight way?
>
> Short answer: no
>
> Long answer: no, if the camera is sufficiently far away and the "liquid" is
> scaled very closely to the container. However if the camera is very close to the
> container, then maybe.
>
> Let's say your camera is 1 unit away from your bottle. You place a bottle at
> <0,0,0>, then put the liquid in by scaling your bottle model by .9. You will see
> a gap. However, if you scale the bottle model by .999999999 you probably won't
> see the gap.

Ok but why not just scale 1.00001 and push the liquid into the bottle wall?
Doesn't that eliminate both problems?


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