In article <web.3fb9705e4b0664231e2d84430@news.povray.org>,
 "Steely" <Rob### [at] hamburgde> wrote:

> Is there any way to ask POV-Ray where exactly the last object is located? I
> can find its location of course drawing triangles on paper ;-) but I am
> looking for some "magic" feature that writes the location directly to the
> message window or something else.

What's the location of an object? There is no such thing.


> I thought of vtransform{} and also I thought of min_extent/max_extent as the
> doc says in both cases it will return values, but I cannot figure out to

> (means, I have no clue how to get it to work correctly).

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. The vtransform() macro (parentheses, not 
curly brackets...it's a macro) transforms a point with a given 
transformation. Pick the point you want to treat as the "center" of the 
object and transform it with the same transformation you used on the 
object.

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