On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 08:55, Christopher Sean Morrison <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2012, at 6:20 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
>
> > But don't we have the solution now?  The mged make_bbox command seems
> > to calculate the desired parameters now.
>
> It fakes it.  The bb command does a tighter fit by ignoring subtractions and 
> only using the
> intersecting bb for intersections.  It'd still be the better routine to use 
> inside the rt* tools.

I'm dense here, which 'it', the 'make_bb' or the 'bb'?

> It's just still not the "final solution" is all.

Many great things are created iteratively, are they not?

> > And if that is not used, rtedge does not seem to output the center of
> > the viewing bounding box, although I guess the Eye_pos could be used.
>
> Halfway between rppmin and rppmax, no?

Hm, I didn't know that (or I forgot).

> > That seems to do the trick for now.  All I need for Christmas then is
> > a tighter view for rtedge on demand.  If I were comfortable with
> > quaternions and such, I would add an option to rtedge to do that.

> Great, 11 months to implement that sounds doable. ;-)

Surely you jest, otherwise, I retract the statement!

Cheers!

-Tom

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