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1 Jun 2025 13:17:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: inside() results in: Parse Error: Expected 'operand', objectidentifier, found instead  
From: Cousin Ricky
Date: 27 May 2025 20:06:29
Message: <68365385$1@news.povray.org>
On 2025-05-27 19:27 (-4), Lars Rohwedder wrote:
> I tried some magic with inside() and isosurface, but povray does not
> like even the simplest terms involving the inside() function, see
> attached scene file snippet:
> 
> ---<snip>---

I think ABX hinted at the answer in the 2002 thread: inside() is not
listed in the syntax diagram for user-defined functions.  The
documentation reads, "only float functions that apply to float values
may be used," but inside()'s arguments are not floats.

https://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Function


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