POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Math help : Re: Math help Server Time
1 Jul 2024 04:50:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Math help  
From: SharkD
Date: 13 Sep 2009 15:29:07
Message: <4aad4803$1@news.povray.org>
Christian Froeschlin wrote:
> SharkD wrote:
> 
>> Unfortunately, this program uses algebraic functions in the format of 
>> f(x) =  2 * x, which can sometimes be hard two convert to POVray's 
>> format of 0 = 2 * x - y.
> 
> I probably misunderstood that problem ... isn't the conversion just
> subtracting the function value from both sides of the equations?

In this case it is. However, consider the functions 0 = 2 * x - y^2 and 
0 = 2 * x - log(y). Things begin to get a little tricky.

-Mike


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