POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Array and vector functions?: Array and vector functions?

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From: Ilya Razmanov
Date: 3 Oct 2025 15:24:59
Message: <68e0230b$1@news.povray.org>

Greetings sentients,

do I understand it correctly that POV-Ray does not have array functions 
(meaning I can neither pass an array as argument nor receive it as a 
result), and vector functions are so limited that practically aren't 
worth mentioning?

I have a weird idea of turning my POV-Ray Mosaic

https://dnyarri.github.io/povzaika.html

into something even more unhuman. Currently primitive attributes are 
controlled by source pixel brightness; I'm thinking of making it 
controlled by arbitrary function of color and coordinates (yes, 
something like "Xaos Tools" "Paint Alchemy" Photoshop plugin, but for 
3D). Not sure it's a good idea but why not to try somedays. For that, I 
need some suitable form of passing arguments/results in a packed form, 
to avoid turning all this into something obscure and cabbalistic.

-- 
Ilyich the Toad
https://dnyarri.github.io/

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