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5 Sep 2024 04:15:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: difference and bicubic_patch  
From: JRG
Date: 21 Nov 2001 16:46:03
Message: <3bfc209b@news.povray.org>
MR
> hi marabou,
>
> hey!  thats one i can answer!  difference is a constructive
> solid geometry option, and that only works with "primitive"
> shapes, such as cylinders, boxes, spheres, etc.  all of those
> shapes except the donut (toroid) are listed in the scene
> language help document in section 2.2.

What do you mean with "primitive"? Difference truly works with every object
which has got a well defined "inside" and "outside". So it works fine with
planes, isosurfaces, heightfields and (with MegaPov) meshes too.

--
Jonathan.


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