POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : While we are talking about changes : Re: While we are talking about changes Server Time
10 Aug 2024 03:16:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: While we are talking about changes  
From: Bill DeWitt
Date: 12 Mar 2000 10:21:42
Message: <38cbb606$1@news.povray.org>
"Francois Labreque" <fla### [at] attglobalnet> wrote :
>
> Hum....  I do get your point and in some cases it could be a good idea,
> but
>
> box {
>     scale < 2, 2, 2 >
>     translate < 5, 5, 5 >
> }
>
> is actually more characters than
>
> box {
>     < 5, 5, 5 >
>     < 7, 7, 7 >
> }
>

    True, but how often do you do things like that? I almost -always- make
objects at origin then scale and translate. The few times I don't are
usually when I want to connect a cylinder or cone to certain points.


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