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6 Sep 2024 02:20:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Help with CGS  
From: Markus Becker
Date: 16 Apr 1999 04:40:24
Message: <3716EA1D.7F0D75F1@zess.uni-siegen.de>
Ken wrote:
> 
> while loop. The correct way to implement a merge using a csg is like the
> example below. It is your while loop rearranged to operate correctly.
> When using a CSG within a while loop you must move the merge statement
> outside the while statement or it is not acted upon correctly. Don't
> ask me why this is so but I found after many hair pulling sessions and
> then finaly by asking in these groups how to solve my problem.

What do you expect? If you have the "merge" _inside_ the #while
loop, POV creates a "merge"-object fo each pass through the
loop. That's the way things work. No need to ask "why?"

Markus


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