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14 May 2024 10:53:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Where did THAT come from...?  
From: FractRacer
Date: 26 Mar 2014 07:41:15
Message: <5332bcdb@news.povray.org>


>> I'm trying to hunt down the origin of an unexpected black box in a scene.
>>
>> Is there something like Trace() that I can use to find out where the
>> object in question is defined?  I don't care if there are 7 different
>> objects overlapping, at least I'd know which 7 to look into...
>>
>
> You can use min_extent and max_extent which give the coordinates of the
> bounding limits of the object. Use debug to display the values.
>
> #declare Min = min_extent (Obj);
> #declare Max = max_extent (Obj);
>
> #debug concat("[X0=",str(Min.x,1,0),"][X1=",str(Max.x,1,0)"]\n")
> #debug concat("[Y0=",str(Min.y,1,0),"][Y1=",str(Max.y,1,0)"]\n")
> #debug concat("[Z0=",str(Min.z,1,0),"][Z1=",str(Max.z,1,0)"]\n")
>
> In hope this helps you.
> Lionel.
>

Oops! I think I misunderstood the problem!

Can we have some code to see what happens?

Lionel.

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