POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Conic Blob Componants : Re: wishlist : matrix2 Server Time
13 Aug 2024 17:28:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: wishlist : matrix2  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 21 Jul 1998 10:22:29
Message: <35b49615.0@news.povray.org>
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998 06:01:53 -0500, Dan Connelly <djc### [at] flashnet> wrote:
>Many enhancements could be made to blobs, but another option
>might be a second-order version of matrix... it would 
>require 4^2 * 3 = 48 components, and would allow transformations
>of the type 
>
>x -> (1 - ay ) x
>z -> (1 - ay ) z
>
>... among many others.
>
>The normal calculations of thus-transformed objects may
>be a bit tricky, however...

The transformation itself would be tricky, never mind the normals.  See 
povray.programming, where this topic has been discussed in detail in the past
few weeks.


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