POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Mega-Pov or V3.5? : Re: Mega-Pov or V3.5? Server Time
7 Aug 2024 09:27:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Mega-Pov or V3.5?  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 29 Jan 2002 13:02:33
Message: <3c56e3b9@news.povray.org>
In article <3C5### [at] readingacuk> , Michael Andrews 
<M.C### [at] readingacuk>  wrote:

> The one thing I truely mourn in the changes to the functions is their
> inability to return colour at run-time.
>
> There were certain things that could be done with
>
> #declare fn_pig = function { pigment { ... } }
> #declare warped_pig = pigment { function { fn_pig(fn_x,fn_y,fn_z) } }
>
> type constructs in O(n) time which now need O(exp(n)) time and become
> ludicrously slow.

?!?!?

I don't understand what you want to do or what you are up to.  Or what
supposedly now takes exponential time.

    Thorsten

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