POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : isosurface - contained_by : Re: isosurface - contained_by Server Time
30 Jul 2024 18:14:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: isosurface - contained_by  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 12 Oct 2001 11:26:23
Message: <3bc70b9f@news.povray.org>
In article <3bc6ffd9@news.povray.org> , "Hugo" <hua### [at] post3teledk> wrote:

> I'm not sure wether this has already been adressed but I haven't read it.
> The following container won't work in isosurfaces:
> contained_by { box { <-1,1,-1>,<1,-1,1> }
>
> But this one works:
> contained_by { box { <-1,-1,-1>,<1,1,1> }
>
> I found that MegaPOV do the same, but I don't like it... Boxes can normally
> be described in any order I want; upside down or inside out.. This
> "restriction" seems illogical and is not found in "clipped_by" so just for
> making things more transparant for the users, this could be changed.. in my
> humble opinion.

Hi Hugo,

This should have been fixed a long time ago.  As it turns out there is a bug
so it will only correct the X and Z axis, but miss the Y axis.  This will be
corrected in the next beta.

Thank you for finding this bug!


    Thorsten


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