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20 Apr 2024 08:06:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Exponential cylinder density function  
From: Alain Martel
Date: 8 Feb 2021 10:24:57
Message: <602157c9$1@news.povray.org>
Le 2021-02-07 à 09:07, Bald Eagle a écrit :
> 
> Mike Horvath <mik### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> On 2/6/2021 11:48 PM, Mike Horvath wrote:
>>> I am using this density function:
>>>
>>> function {1-f_cylindrical(x,y,z)}
>>>
>>> How do I make it so that the density decreases exponentially?
>> Increases rather.
> 
> 
>>> function {1-f_cylindrical(x,y,z)*f_cylindrical(x,y,z)}
> 
> This would be geometrically?
> 
> Exponentially would imply using log() or (exp) ?
> or maybe pow (term, some varying power)
> 
> I usually use a spreadsheet, or plot my function in POV-Ray with spheres to show
> myself what's actually going on
> 
> 

function {1-f_cylindrical(x,y,z)*f_cylindrical(x,y,z)}
is exactly the same as
function {1-pow(f_cylindrical(x,y,z),2)}

The advantage of the second is that f_cylindrical need to be evaluated 
only once, making the evaluation of the whole function faster.

An exponential curve could be something like :
function {1- exp(f_cylindrical(x,y,z))}


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