POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Mega-Pov or V3.5? : Re: Mega-Pov or V3.5? Server Time
7 Aug 2024 01:26:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Mega-Pov or V3.5?  
From: Nekar Xenos
Date: 29 Jan 2002 02:55:54
Message: <3c56558a@news.povray.org>
"Zeger Knaepen" <zeg### [at] studentkuleuvenacbe> wrote in message
news:3c560caf@news.povray.org...
> >   Like pattern functions, fractal patterns with exponents >4, transmit
> Aren't pattern functions part of MegaPov?
>
> > behaviour outside the range 0-1,
> they have changed the transmit behaviour outside the range 0-1 ???
> :(
> I liked it the way it was...
>
> > support for reading JPEG and TIFF,
> useful, but not reason enough to use 3.5 instead of MegaPov.  Not for me at
least.
>
> > unicode support, etc.
> again: might be useful, but to me not reason enough to use 3.5
>
> cu!
> --
> camera{location-z*3}#macro G(b,e)b+(e-b)*(C/50)#end#macro L(b,e,k,l)#local C=0
> ;#while(C<50)sphere{G(b,e),.1pigment{rgb G(k,l)}finish{ambient 1}}#local C=C+1
> ;#end#end L(y-x,y,x,x+y)L(y,-x-y,x+y,y)L(-x-y,-y,y,y+z)L(-y,y,y+z,x+y)L(0,x+y,
> <.5,1,.5>,x)L(0,x-y,<.5,1,.5>,x)               // ZK http://www.povplace.be.tf
>

object{MyObject finish{reflection{<.1,.2,.3>,<.5,.6,.7> falloff 3}}}

MegaPov wouldn't parse a scene in which I used variable reflections...


Does MegaPov have average patterns? I don't remember any, but I've never really
fully gone through the docs either.

--
#local X=20*<-2,2,5>;sphere_sweep{catmull_rom_spline 6<-8,-8>1<-8,-8>1<-8,8>1<
8,-8>1<8,8>1<8,8>1translate 20*z pigment{gradient z scale 3color_map{[0rgb<0,9
,18>][1rgb 0]}}}#local K=2*z*X-X;#local R=seed(clock);blob{#while(K.x>X.x)
#local N=X+<rand(R)rand(R)1>/3;#local X=(vlength(N-K)<vlength(X-K)?N:2*X-N);
sphere{X,1,1rotate z*90}sphere{X,1,1}#end pigment{rgbt 1}interior{media{//Nekar
emission<2,4,5>*5}}hollow scale.05}//   http://nekar_xenos.tripod.com/metanoia/


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