In article <3fbb018b@news.povray.org>,
 Steely <rob### [at] hamburgde> wrote:

> > The min_extent() function returns the lower-left-front corner of the
> > bounding box of the object, the max_extent() function returns the
> > upper-right-back corner. The documentation explains this fully, I
> > suggest you read it again.
> 
> HmHmmHmmm ... If You wanted to name me whatever You succeeded.

Er, thank you?


> You also managed to quote the docs correctly. How about answering the 
> question next time?

I did. Your exact question has no answer, because the question itself is 
nonsense, but I gave you two ways of accomplishing your apparent goal. 
To repeat myself: there is no magic way of getting the object's 
"location", because in general, there is no such thing. What's the 
location of a person? Their center of mass? The point in between the 
centers of area of their feet? Or even simpler: what's the location of a 
triangle? A triangle has at least twenty known "centers", starting with 
the incenter, centroid, circumcenter, and orthocenter, and your desired 
"location" may be none of these. 
(http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Center.html, 
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TriangleCenter.html)

Instead of some mysterious location value, you can get an approximation 
of the extents of the object along each axis, or pick a point to call 
the location of the object and transform that point with the same 
transform you applied to the object.

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