Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> writes:

>   I think that this patch is not of very much use if we can't get the
> transformations from an object. You seldom define the transformations of
> an object separately.
>   How about a function to get the transformations applied to an object?
> Something like:
> 
> #declare Trans = transformations(MyObject)
> 
> object
> { MyObject
>   transform { Trans inverse }
> }
> 
>   This would create an instance of MyObject without transformations.
> 
>   Of course there's a problem: What if MyObject is a CSG with nested
> transformations?

A further problem is that this doesn't work with the recent patche of
"plane" and "triangle". As far as I know, the transformations are omitted
by the patch to increase the rendering speed.

Thomas
-- 
http://thomas.willhalm.de/ (includes pgp key)

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