POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Mega-Pov or V3.5? : Re: Mega-Pov or V3.5? Server Time
7 Aug 2024 01:20:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Mega-Pov or V3.5?  
From: Jan Walzer
Date: 30 Jan 2002 16:43:10
Message: <3c5868ee$1@news.povray.org>
"Zeger Knaepen" <zeg### [at] studentkuleuvenacbe> wrote:
> > But is that what you would do if it had been years since an official
version
> > was released, the users were getting restless, and 4.0 was probably still
> > years away?
> Do users really need an official version every few years?  I'm happy with
unofficial
> patches, as long as they work the way I expect :)
>

AFAIK: Yes! Just consider the use of POV as a benchmark...
Although this is probably not, what POV was invented for, and where it's
real powers are, it's still used as an official benchmark...

You can't think, that people are using "unofficial patches" for doing serious
benchmarks ...


--
#macro J(N A)#local a=mod(N 3);#local W=<int(mod(A,4)*2)int(-A/4)9>*2;#if
(!mod(a 2))sphere{W,2,2pigment{color rgb<a*5A/2W.x/A*5>}}#if(a<1)sphere{W
+<2,0>2 2pigment{color rgb<a*10A 10>}}#end#end#if(N>3)J(int(N/3)A+1)#end#
end blob{J(29229171 0)threshold 1translate<-6 3>}/******Jan Walzer******/


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