POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Math help : Re: Math help Server Time
1 Jul 2024 05:07:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Math help  
From: Christian Froeschlin
Date: 13 Sep 2009 20:24:52
Message: <4aad8d54@news.povray.org>
SharkD wrote:
> 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.

ok. I thought you wished to convert in the other direction.


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