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29 Jul 2024 20:17:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: df3 strangeness  
From: Le Forgeron
Date: 29 Sep 2013 04:12:22
Message: <5247e0e6$1@news.povray.org>
Le 29/09/2013 09:01, Thomas de Groot nous fit lire :
> On 28-9-2013 17:19, Le_Forgeron wrote:
>> what is strange ?
>> The df3 describes a unit-cube, with distinct resolution along each axis,
>> but it is only a unit-cube.
> 
> Well, /that/ is exactly what I am wondering. Does the df3 /always/ scale
> to the unit-sized box? whatever the bounding box of the object is? I
> probably missed something but I do not remember having read this anywhere.
> 
> That puts my earlier observation of squeezing into another light...
> 

Citing 3.6 documentation, first sentence:
> http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/3.6.1/374/

The density_file pattern is a 3-D bitmap pattern that occupies a unit
cube from location <0,0,0> to <1,1,1>.

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The same sentence was already in 3.1 documentation


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