POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : "scale" usagage observation : Re: "scale" usagage observation Server Time
4 Aug 2024 00:25:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: "scale" usagage observation  
From: Marc Champagne
Date: 11 Sep 2003 08:18:30
Message: <Xns93F3543EF2033newsATctldirectDORco@204.213.191.226>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in news:3f60674b@news.povray.org:

> Marc Champagne <marcch.AT.videotron.DOT.ca> wrote:
>> Would it not be wise for the scale statement to assume 1 instead of 0
>> for those vectors that are not specified. 
> 
>   Certainly not. That would seriously break things like translate x*5
> or box { 0,1 }

I don't mention translate or box do I!


>   It could be thinkable that the 'scale' command would be a special
> case, where an element value of 0 is converted to 1. However, this is
> what it already does. The only question is whether the warning is
> relevant or not.

Bingo


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