2012/7/20 Oliver Gloth <ogl...@engits.com>:
> Daniel,
>
> I thought it was a known behaviour; if not, I'll first have a look at my
> stuff and make sure that I didn't make any silly mistake.
>
> Another question came up, however: Is there a method to determine if a
> given point (x,y,z) is inside or outside of a given BRL-CAD object?
If the inhit-point (pt_inhit->hit_point of struct partition or
PointIn() of class ConstDatabase::Hit) is behind the ray's start point
then the start point is inside the component, i.e.
(inhit-point - start-point) \dot ray-direction < 0 ==> start-point is inside
Daniel
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