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  Re: Is sphere_sweep known to be troublesome?  
From: clipka
Date: 23 Mar 2010 16:04:06
Message: <4ba91eb6$1@news.povray.org>
Warp schrieb:

>   It may be a good idea to remove a manual bounding box eg. if it has been
> applied to a sphere primitive, because in that case the bounding box will
> only make rendering the sphere slower. However, in the case of a sphere
> sweep this is clearly not a case, hence a special case is warranted.

Sounds like opening up too many special cases, and the question which 
objects should be treated that way and which shouldn't.

Why not simply output a warning whenever user-specified bounding boxes 
are removed, regardless of object type?

If a user decides that he needs the bounding box, he can then just 
change the .ini file or command line parameters accordingly and live 
happily ever after.


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