POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : The Harcore Povrayer Test : Re: The Harcore Povrayer Test Server Time
30 Jul 2024 06:32:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Harcore Povrayer Test  
From: Peter Popov
Date: 31 Jan 2002 17:45:57
Message: <v2ij5usc5eg7t031erq66n6msdqp6vqo4g@4ax.com>
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:38:28 +0100, Christoph Hormann
<chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:

>If you have a method to determine if some point is inside or outside the
>object there is nothing further needed apart from the existing
>intersection routines.  This makes only one reason why a mesh can't be
>used in CSG.

>Or did i miss something essential?

For CSG, you'll need all intersections, and in 3.1, the
All_Mesh_Intersections function returned just the closest one (for
speed reasons I guess).


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