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  Re: Trce in superpatch; trace????  
From: Mick Hazelgrove
Date: 15 Apr 1999 04:28:31
Message: <3715951f.0@news.povray.org>
Hi

There you go - I couldn't of put it better if I'd written the superpatch:)

Mick

Matthias <sma### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:

> >looks like a macro defined somewhere else!

> >Hm would be nice if you could make me wiser!
>
> Trace isn't a macro, it's a function that exists only in the Superpatch,
> available at http://twysted.net/patchstation .  It is used to find the
> intersection of an arbitrary ray with an arbitrary object and is useful
> for such things as placing objects on height fields or growing creeping
> ivy in POV scripts.


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