On 02/25/2014 04:01 PM, James Holsenback wrote:
> On 02/25/2014 02:04 PM, Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
>> James Holsenback <nom### [at] nonecom> wrote:
>>> On 02/24/2014 06:43 PM, Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
>>>> "Tor Olav Kristensen" <tor### [at] TOBEREMOVEDgmailcom> wrote:
>>>>> James Holsenback <nom### [at] nonecom> wrote:
>>>>>> On 02/23/2014 10:44 AM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
>>>>>>> The documentation of colors.inc (section 3.4.9.1.3.2) describes a
>>>>>>> macro
>>>>>>> Convert_Color() which converts between various color systems.
>>>>>>> There is no such
>>>>>>> macro anywhere in the POV-Ray distribution.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Also, the descriptions of the existing conversion macros do not
>>>>>>> say whether they
>>>>>>> return the converted parameter or the parameter is converted in
>>>>>>> place.  (It's
>>>>>>> the former.)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> POV-Ray versions: POV-Ray 3.7.0
>>>>>>> Operating system: openSUSE 13.1 GNU/Linux
>>>>>>> Hardware: Dell Inspiron 17R, Intel Core i7
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm guessing that it's been missing for some time now ...
>>>>>> colors.inc is
>>>>>> at revision 4 in perforce and I did "diff" on all previous versions
>>>>>> (back to 2001.7.21). I didn't see it! I'm going to wait on
>>>>>> removing it
>>>>>> from the docs ... to see if anyone else has any input on the
>>>>>> issue, as
>>>>>> I'm clueless on this one.
>>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps it is related to the macro that was mentioned in this post ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/message/%3Cchrishuff-D90D60.06530721112000%40news.povray.org%3E/#%3C
>>>>>
>> chr
>>>> is
>>>>> huff-D90D60.06530721112000%40news.povray.org%3E
>>>>>
>>>>> From: Chris Huff
>>>>> Subject: Re: Glow lights 2(~40K) - glowlits.jpeg (1/1)
>>>>> Date: 21 Nov 2000 10:29:59
>>>>> Message: <chrishuff-1127E8.05302121112000@news.povray.org>
>>>>
>>>> Sorry. I meant this one (in the same thread):
>>>>
>>>> From: Chris Huff
>>>> Subject: Re: Glow lights 2(~40K) - glowlits.jpeg (1/1)
>>>> Date: 21 Nov 2000 11:52:44
>>>> Message: <chrishuff-D90D60.06530721112000@news.povray.org>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Tor Olav
>>>> http://subcube.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks ... if I'm reading correctly it is/was part of megapov and I
>>> should remove Convert_Color() from the docs
>>
>> The capitalization makes me suspect that this macro have been prepared
>> for the
>> official include files. And then, maybe, someone just forgot to
>> include it ;)
>>
>> --
>> Tor Olav
>> http://subcube.com
>
> did some digging and wasn't able to find where to download ... any help
> with locating would be appreciated, if not the I think removing from
> docs is the next best solution
>

the deeper I dig the more it seems that it's a documentation anomaly. I 
looked in perforce and found where it disappeared.

I version 3.5 colors.inc had 7 revisions ... initial version 2/21/01 
didn't have /ANY/ color macros but showed up in v2 when CHSL2RGB() and 
it's kin, including Convert_Color() were added. In version 5 
Convert_Color() was removed and hasn't been heard from since ... the 
others remained.

I'm going to remove it from the documentation.

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