Re: Intersection of two cylinders

[Chris <chris@starforge.co.uk>]

Henningsen wrote:


> If you've made a solid search, I would assume that there simply is no simple
> formula. The volume is given by a double integral, and if it cannot be
> solved by a formula you will have to numerically approximate that integral,
> which will require substantial computation irrespective of what type of
> numerical integration method you choose.

<snip good advise>

Thanks Peter, now I've got to make up my mind whether I can affort to do
a fair bit of work (it only needs to be done once in several thousand
frames) or whether I can come up with a better method for the whole thing.

Why can't we have an easy to calulcate universe! :))

Chris
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