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30 Jul 2024 22:17:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Few questions about triangles  
From: Mike Williams
Date: 13 Jul 2003 17:34:30
Message: <8rPzkFATBdE$EwRz@econym.demon.co.uk>
Wasn't it Christopher James Huff who wrote:
>In article <3f11b932$1@news.povray.org>,
> "OverlordQ" <ove### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>
>> was uv_smooth_triangle ever a primitive?
>
>No.
>
>
>> I got a older program that exports .inc files and that was one of the 
>> options.
>> uv_smooth_triangle ( <-3.2179, 5.8052, -27.8675>, <-0.7918, 0.4379, 0.4257>,
>> <0.9783, 0.6857>, <-3.2566, 5.5263, -27.8693>, <-0.9047, -0.0167, 0.4257>,
>> <0.9783, 0.4762>, <-3.0931, 5.5454, -32.6566>, <-0.9047, 0.0167, -0.4257>,
>> <0.1949, 0.4762> )
>
>That's not a primitive, it's a macro. uv_smooth_triangle() is defined 
>somewhere, either at the beginning of that file or in another file it 
>includes.

I guess that "older program" is Jan Walter's POVEXPORT.PY program. 

The macro is in TRIMAP.MCR by Chris Colefax. You can find a copy at
<http://www.janw.gothere.uk.com/download.html> Right next to the
POVEXPORT.PY link there's a TRIMAP.ZIP link.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure


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