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  Re: subtle behavior of Spline_Trans() macro in transforms.inc  
From: Warp
Date: 20 Apr 2009 10:22:18
Message: <49ec851a@news.povray.org>
clipka <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> >   The macro can be told by the user what type of spline it is.
> > Practical? No. Impossible? No.

> The macro to "fix" currently accepts a generic spline. Changing that would break
> any scene currently using the macro (let alone any framework designed to handle
> arbitrary spline types and using this macro), and is therefore *NOT* an option
> I consider anywhere close to valid.

  That's not what you said in your original post. You made absolutely no
mention of "it's impossible to do without modifying the amount of parameters
taken by the macro". You just said it was impossible because of some
derivative which would have to be calculated. Your arguments were incorrect.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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