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1 Jul 2024 05:59:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Pattern showing *change* in slope  
From: SharkD
Date: 28 Aug 2009 09:38:51
Message: <4a97ddeb@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>   That shows the slope of the heightfield, not the *change* in slope,
> which is a bit more involved (it would require the derivative of the
> function which indicates the slope of the heightfield; since the slope
> function is the derivative of the heightfield function, the change in
> slope would thus be the double derivative of the heightfield function).
> 
>   Maybe the original poster really wanted to actually see the slope,
> rather than the change in slope, in which case your answer would be
> the correct one.
> 

Nope. I want the double derivative.

-Mike


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