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30 Jul 2024 10:16:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: non hollow flat disc  
From: Tom Melly
Date: 15 Jan 2002 08:51:28
Message: <3c4433e0$1@news.povray.org>
"Ron Parker" <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote in message
news:slr### [at] fwicom...
>
> And so it is.  Those with access to the source code to 3.1 or higher can
> see in discs.c (or discs.cpp) that Inside_Disc is not a simple "return false"
> like, say, Inside_Triangle.  The inside of a disc is the inside of the
> plane that contains the disc.  NOTE that it is not constrained by the radius
> of the disc, either, making the insideness of discs somewhat useless, but
> that's how it's defined.
>

Is this a bug, or do the docs just need changing?


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