On 31 Aug 2000 12:28:07 -0400, ron### [at] povrayorg (Ron Parker)
wrote:

>>>By projecting the bounding boxes onto a sphere, I suspect.  I've never looked.
>>
>>That's one way to put it but maybe it only stores the bounding box
>>vertices in spherical coordinates with respect to every light source?
>
>I fail to see a difference between what I said and what you said.

There might be none, it's just that when I read "projected onto
something" I still see that something as an object in 3D and thus the
points on it have 3D coordinates. Technically, though, you're right,
there's no difference, it's just the way it sounds.


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