POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : Min_extent on blobs : Re: Min_extent on blobs Server Time
2 Sep 2024 08:17:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Min_extent on blobs  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 21 Mar 2000 12:44:40
Message: <38d7b508$1@news.povray.org>
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 12:24:28 -0500, Greg M. Johnson wrote:
>I think I just found out the hard way that the min_extent calculation
>for blobs calculates the furthest extent of any component, and not the
>surface which is "raytraced" and controlled by the threshold.

It's not really a calculation, it just returns the corners of the automatic
bounding box.  The bounding box isn't always the smallest one possible in 
complex situations like CSG and blobs; I suppose that should be documented
somewhere.

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