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  Re: Flowing Water take 4 (985KB)  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 20 Jun 2001 13:00:46
Message: <3B30D711.E0979EF8@gmx.de>
Geoff Wedig wrote:
> 
> Sorry for jumping in here.  I've looked for this 'simple test' before, but
> haven't found it.  Is there a function 'inside' available?  I can see using
> the object pigment to do it (in Megapov) and writing a macro, but is there
> another way?  Searching the docs (both pov and MP), I'm not finding anything
> on insideness tests.

No, i think you would have to use the object pattern.  In povray source
code, there is the Inside_Object() function, maybe it would be useful to
have this available in SDL too so you don't need the pattern, but i doubt
this would lead to much gain in speed.

Christoph

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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
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