H'mm.  Some interesting ideas here.  I'll try them and see how I get on!  At
least the more I experiment, the better I understand how the code actually
works, so it's all to the good, I guess.  Just very frustrating when I want
it to work now!  :p

Thanks loads for all the suggestions from everybody, anyway.  Much obliged!


"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote in message news:43c3fb57@news.povray.org...
>
> "Frango com Nata" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message
> news:web.43c3edfdb43d912cde6a74b0@news.povray.org...
> > Well, we shouldn't expect it otherwise, since...
> >
> >>  blob {
> >>  threshold 0.5
> >>  #declare Length = 0;
> >>  #while ( Length >= -30 )
> >>   #declare Scale = 2;
> >
> > ..... this loop...
> >
> >>   #while ( Scale >= 0.25 )
> >>
> >>    #end
> >
> > ..... is terminated here, without altering Scale from its initial value
2:
> > it'll never drop below 0.25, so making the execution everlasting.
>
>    Ah, thank you. I'm not experienced at all with #declare and #while, but
> was quite pleased that I actually got it to parse after trying quite a few
> things. Thankfully, it was only parsing overnight...  ;)
>
>
> > I think they should try this instead:
> >
> > blob {
> >  threshold 0.5
> >  #declare Length = 0;
> >  #while ( Length >= -30 )
> >    #declare Scale = 2;
> >    #while ( Scale >= 0.25 )
> >      sphere { <0,0,0>, 20, 1 scale <1,1,0.9>
> >        translate <Length,0,0>
> >        scale Scale
> >      }
> >      #declare Scale = Scale - 0.1;
> >    #end
> >   #declare Length = Length - 0.25;
> >  #end
> > }
>
>  Oh, that parsed in what seemed like less than half a second! Image looks
> like it's going to be *real* slow though. The blob?
>
>   Hope it helps the OP.
>
>     ~Steve~
>

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