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  Re: Requesting user feedback: POV-Ray v3.7 scenes/includes  
From: Le Forgeron
Date: 25 Mar 2013 03:50:28
Message: <515001c4$1@news.povray.org>
Le 23/03/2013 13:59, Cousin Ricky a écrit :
> Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
>> So, we're asking for user feedback and recommendations for things to
>> remove and things to add. Please followup to this thread ... thanks!
> 
> How about adding this line to consts.inc:
> 
>   #declare tau = 2 * pi;
> 
> In 4.0, this can be replaced with a built-in variable.
> 
> 
> 
this does not seem yet to be an universal value:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau

there is 2*pi, but also the golden ratio [ (1+sqrt(5))/2 ]

What's wrong so far with 2*pi ?

-- 
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