POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Collective Short Code Wisdom : Re: Collective Short Code Wisdom Server Time
31 Jul 2024 02:19:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Collective Short Code Wisdom  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 30 Nov 2007 16:08:14
Message: <47507bbe@news.povray.org>

> Trevor G Quayle wrote:
>>> 7.  Vector expressions with zero values can be shortened as follows:





>>
>> Also:
>> "<1,0,1>" becomes x+z
>> "<2,0,2>" becomes 2*(x+z)
> 7 chars -> 7 chars. not much of an improvement ;)
> I would suggest in stead: 2-2*y or 2-y-y

If you'll need such values *often*, you can #local xz=x+z; Then you can 
use 2*xz which is only 4 chars.


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