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21 Jul 2024 03:23:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Something fresh - symetry operator patch  
From: Wlodzimierz ABX Skiba
Date: 11 May 2001 11:06:21
Message: <3afbffed$1@news.povray.org>
Ron Parker wrote in message ...
> Don't take it personally.

now that's more clear :-)

> > Also I know that we don't need dot operator for vector.
> > Just vdot(V,x) instead of V.x
> > We don't need A?B:C becouse #if(A)B#else C #end works fine
> > I just needed it becouse of less typing and more natural for me
>
> But my point was that it's not natural.  "@" doesn't mean anything like
> that in any other language

I expleined somwhere at begining that I get "@" becouse it was only free - I
want get "|" as symbol of mirror but it was reserved for other operations

> and saying "A at B" in english doesn't convey any sort of symmetry meaning

I don't like it too

> > just like our sigs
>
> Not even close.  Both of us have sigs that consist mostly of what looks
> like English words, but something like (<4,3,2>@x+y@<5,6.7,8>).z really
> does look like noise.


what about :

x / |x| + ( x $X = ( x @ x ) . x ^ ( x * x ) ;)

--
#macro Sig(A,B,X)_(A,B)_(B,X)_(X,A)#end#macro _(A,B)cylinder{<A.x,A.y,3>,<B.u,
B.v,3>.1,9}#end global_settings{max_trace_level 9}light_source{0 1}camera{up y
*4right-3*x}blob{_(<3,1>,<1,-5>)_(<2,-2>,<4,-2>)Sig(x,<-1,1.5>,<1,3>)_(z-1,z-4
)pigment{rgb 1}}box{-3 3pigment{rgb 0}finish{reflection 1}hollow} // POV-Ray31


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