> using the scene file below, I get nothing but a black image.  I
> interpret this output
>    ------------------------------------------------------------------
>    Ray->Shape Intersection          Tests       Succeeded  Percentage
>    ------------------------------------------------------------------
>    Parametric                      788225               0      0.00
>    Parametric Bound                788225          788225    100.00
>    ------------------------------------------------------------------
> to mean that while the rays hit the default bounding box, they do not
> hit the object that's meant to be inside [2].
>
> I've tried various scales for the object and am now out of ideas.

I changed the following code and get *something* visible, not sure it's 
what you want though:

> camera {
>    location <0,2,-5>
      look_at <0,-4,0>
> }
...
>    contained_by { box { -10, 10 } }

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