In article <3dd0aeac@news.povray.org>,
 "Massimo Valentini" <six### [at] inwindit> wrote:

> Well, I've been confused by the doc, in particular, 
> 
> <QUOTE>
> 6.5.6  Constructive Solid Geometry
> 6.5.6.1  Inside and Outside
> and by the warning povray issues with the bug-report scene.

Looks like some documentation needs to be updated, the inside_vector 
feature is supposed to let meshes be used like any other solid object.


> In fact, the point is that Invert_Mesh(OBJECT *) is an empty function,
> so it's not possible to distinguish between intersection and 
> difference (that internally is an intersection among the first object
> and the "inverse" of every other object), when the mesh object is not 
> the first.

That would be a definite bug.


> I don't see that message too. I replied to the last message I see in 
> povray.bugreports, and cross posted to povray.programming. 
> 
> Hope that's the correct way to do.

It apparently isn't, only bug reports go to *.bugreports, and your 
crossposted reply got deleted. It probably would work if you modified 
the reply to only go to *.programming.

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