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From: gadoid
Subject: unions of semi-transparent objects
Date: 27 Aug 2007 23:30:00
Message: <web.46d396093415f0b3305d39cc0@news.povray.org>

I have a union of several objects that I want to make semi-transparent, but
the internal surfaces of the things that were unioned together become
visible.  I only want the external surface.  How do I get rid of the
internal surfaces?

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From: Christian Froeschlin
Subject: Re: unions of semi-transparent objects
Date: 28 Aug 2007 02:51:58
Message: <46d3c60e$1@news.povray.org>

gadoid wrote:
> I have a union of several objects that I want to make semi-transparent, but
> the internal surfaces of the things that were unioned together become
> visible.  I only want the external surface.  How do I get rid of the
> internal surfaces?

use "merge" instead of "union"

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