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30 Jul 2024 06:30:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: CSG Challenge  
From: clipka
Date: 26 Jul 2013 09:52:59
Message: <51f27f3b@news.povray.org>
Am 26.07.2013 15:12, schrieb Shay:

> If linear prisms are allowed, will curved prisms be allowed as well?

Why, yes, of course.

> I don’t completely disagree with allowing linear prisms as a shortcut, but
> there's something nice about being able to say a shape is made from
> planes, spheres, boxes, cones, cylinders, and tori (rings). These shapes
> (ok, maybe not planes) are known to children. Most people think of a
> prism as something to make rainbows out of sunlight.

I have no problem with you considering this an art form of its own, but 
assigning this concept to the term "CSG scene" is like assigning the 
concept of haikus to the word "poetry": Sure, every haiku qualifies as 
poetry, but if you ask me to write poetry don't necessarily expect me to 
write a haiku.


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