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30 Jul 2024 06:18:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: translation question  
From: Maurice
Date: 11 Sep 2004 15:08:09
Message: <41434d19$1@news.povray.org>
Slime wrote:
>>translate y*size-delta
> 
> 
> Multiplication is performed before addition or subtraction, so that's
> equivalent to
> 
> translate <0,1,0>*<size,size,size> - <delta,delta,delta>
> or
> translate <0,size,0> - <delta,delta,delta>
> or
> translate <-delta,size-delta,-delta>
> 
> What you want is
> 
> translate y*(size-delta)
> 
>  - Slime
>  [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]
> 
> 
Thanks

That explains.


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