Thorsten Froehlich wrote in message <3a34f263$1@news.povray.org>...
>In article <3a34d6c9@news.povray.org> , "Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba"
><abx### [at] abxartpl> wrote:
>>> Sure it is.  "All intersections" means "all intersections of the object with
>>> a ray."
>>
>> unfotunatly I didn't found such comment in code
>
> Doesn't the function take a "Ray" as argument?

sure, trivial, simple ?
parametric equation of line is exactly ray equation
vector structure is used for both: vectors and points

I thought at first that for csg operation
this always return all intersections and only filter it later

> This might have to do with that fact that POV-Ray is something called a
> "ray-tracer", not a "line-tracer" ;-)


oh, common! I just forgot ;-)

ABX

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