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25 Apr 2024 13:34:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: How to address last 2 components of 5-component vectors?  
From: Le Forgeron
Date: 7 Jul 2016 10:37:41
Message: <577e6935$1@news.povray.org>
Le 07/07/2016 15:30, Bald Eagle a écrit :
> At first I mis-read the docs and thought I could have 6-component vectors, and
> address them x, y, z, t, u, v.
> 
> I trimmed that to 5, and thought that maybe x, y, z, u, v was the way to go, but
> I should have known better.
> 
> I need to use those last 2 values - what are they called?
> 

Bad, bad wiki (In the mood of "Bad, bad zoot", of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail")
You can access the component of 5D vector as a colour: red, green, blue, filter,
transmit

Yes, in that order. Which mean that .t == .filter, not .transmit


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