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9 May 2025 15:03:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: inside() is unreliable on lathe  
From: Cousin Ricky
Date: 4 May 2025 12:15:43
Message: <681792af$1@news.povray.org>
On 2025-05-04 10:04 (-4), jr wrote:
> 
> Cousin Ricky <ric### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
>> I'm still dealing with trace() failures on lathe.
>> ...
>> My apologies for the procedural definition of the lathe object, but when
>> I print the values and use those to define the lathe, I cannot reproduce
>> the bug.
> 
> I think that's a very interesting "data point".  why/where could or would the
> respective result (the list of points) differ ?

Because the printed list of points is merely a decimal representation of
the procedural results; a discrepancy is almost inevitable.


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