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29 Apr 2024 07:05:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: no_image ignored in nested (difference > union > object)CSGmember  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 28 Mar 2020 10:00:00
Message: <web.5e7f57a1a6ce555cfb0b41570@news.povray.org>
William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:

> My head keeps coming up with more questions about what might and might
> not work. But to test and enumerate all the fringe cases - ugh. And the
> detail would only confuse.

Just asking out of curiosity - is there any way to flowchart most of this?
I often have a hard time deciphering the docs - because that's the nature of
documentation and language in general - but when there's a diagram or rendered
code example, to support the text, then it's usually much better.

Perhaps there's some debugging lines that can be inserted into a copy of the
source that will spit out how the stack of CSG onion layers gets "flattened".

Perhaps a simple POV-Ray scene that diagrammatically shows the "before" and
"after"  flattening attributes of CSG components just to illustrate the basic
concept graphically.


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