Slices

Possibly one of the first macros that were written for Pov-Ray when  the conditional statements were implemented, although I don’t know who was the first to devise it or write it. My CAT macro for scanning of objects is based on the idea that was used here.

• Before use you must declare the object to be cut in pieces:
  (p.e #declare My_Box = box{…})
• The macro will create N-copies of the object in question, one for each slice in which it is to chop.
• Each “piece” of the object is achieved by CSG intersection between the original object and a box that moves up to each slice, and sideways (set by the rnd_amount parameter) to simulate a bit of randomness.

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