POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : recursive objects. : Re: recursive objects. Server Time
12 Aug 2024 03:28:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: recursive objects.  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 30 Mar 1999 13:44:39
Message: <37011b97.0@news.povray.org>
In article <37002F51.735EA24D@email.uc.edu> , abc <def### [at] emailucedu>
wrote:

> I'm trying to make a few objects for a scene I'm working on and am
> wondering if there is an easy way to do recursion in POVray, e.g.,
> trees.  I can do it using while loops and #declares...(declare an object
> as multiples of itself scaled and translated/rotated) but am wondering
> if there is an easier way as this eats up a lot of memory and processor
> time.  Thanks for any attention this gets.

What exactly do you want to use the recursion for, creating objects, i.e.
single leaves of a tree? If you want to create objects this way it will be
possible (with some limitations) to use macros.


    Thorsten


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