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4 Nov 2024 17:36:19 EST (-0500)
  Re: Povray Documentation Error?  
From: Warp
Date: 23 Jul 2003 13:36:47
Message: <3f1ec7ae@news.povray.org>
Peter Ketting <pet### [at] notmyrealboxcom> wrote:
> I was reading through the Documentation, when I came upon the section
> "clipped_by", which has an illustration along with it. According to the
> documentation, clipped_by will clip off any part of the first object that is
> not inside the second object. However, looking at the illustration that goes
> with it, it seems that whatever is inside the second object will be clipped
> off.

  clipped_by works like intersection, except that the clipping object
will not leave any surface.
  I think that would be a compact way of saying it in the documentation
as well.

  If the image shows anything else, then the image is wrong.

-- 
plane{-x+y,-1pigment{bozo color_map{[0rgb x][1rgb x+y]}turbulence 1}}
sphere{0,2pigment{rgbt 1}interior{media{emission 1density{spherical
density_map{[0rgb 0][.5rgb<1,.5>][1rgb 1]}turbulence.9}}}scale
<1,1,3>hollow}text{ttf"timrom""Warp".1,0translate<-1,-.1,2>}//  - Warp -


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