POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Silly portal question : Re: Silly portal question Server Time
5 Sep 2024 11:24:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Silly portal question  
From: scott
Date: 21 Sep 2009 05:04:52
Message: <4ab741b4$1@news.povray.org>
> I'm saying that if you put this (say) at the north pole, the beam would be 
> falling towards the earth, so the earth would be falling towards the beam. 
> Assuming it's not somehow reversing the effect when the beam enters the 
> bottom portal and comes out the top, then the earth will continue to fall 
> towards the beam. The portals will move faster and faster, even if the 
> beam continues to fall at the same speed.

Ah ok I see what you mean.  Maybe it makes sense for the portal to reverse 
such an effect?  I don't know if that would cause any obvious problems or 
not.


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