In article <3c561640@news.povray.org>,
 "Zeger Knaepen" <zeg### [at] studentkuleuvenacbe> wrote:

> > Those are function patterns. ;-)
> > In POV 3.5, you can make functions directly from patterns. In MegaPOV,
> > you have to use a pigment with a Black-White color_map.
> and what's the difference (except for a slightly longer syntax)?

Speed: it takes longer to evaluate a pattern, do the additional 
computation for a pigment, and convert the resulting color to a 
grayscale value than to just evaluate a pattern.


> > Also, check out the additions to the standard includes...
> hmmm, I've never used standard includes... So I'm not really interested in 
> the additions

Check out the additions, you will use them. ;-)
In addition, it will be necessary if you want to access the built-in 
isosurface functions. The includes are a lot more useful now, not just 
lists of predefined textures or colors...

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