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13 Aug 2024 01:13:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Outline is missed in blob object  
From: Hughes, B 
Date: 3 Jun 2003 13:43:31
Message: <3edcde43@news.povray.org>
First, seems I had mistaken your text as HTML because of the font change. I
use Outlook's menu View|Encoding> set to Windows European (ISO) instead of
Windows European (Western). So the ISO way is showing the text differently
from other messages. At least I think that's why. Sorry.

About that blob trouble... If anything, I would have expected a problem with
very small numbers for the radius, not larger numbers such as you are using.
In fact, your number is not really all that large and it's fairly average.
Makes this very strange. I checked by trial and error where the problem
occurs and I could use up to 316.227766 for the radius, but not more than
that. 316.2277661 or higher gave the clipped sphere. And if R_Body and R_Leg
are both multiplied by 0.94 it will also be within that limit.

Might be a good idea to pass the word around to the other people about it so
I'll do that and hopefully find out what is said about this. Again, very
small numbers have always been known to be trouble due to the internal
precision errors but I didn't think a number like 333 used as the radius of
a blob component could cause this kind of thing to happen.

Bob H.


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