In article <3d9a0d82$1@news.povray.org>, "Shay" <sah### [at] simcopartscom> 
wrote:

> Speaking of cumbersome elements, is there a reason why rotate uses degrees
> while other vector operations use radians?

There aren't any vector operations that use radians. The vrotate() and 
vaxis_rotate() functions use degrees, none of the others use any kind of 
angle unit. Are you thinking of the trig functions?
People usually think of angles in real-world measurements in terms of 
degrees, but trig usually uses radians. The inconsistency isn't usually 
a problem...geometric problems use degrees, math stuff uses radians. It 
is more efficient than using degrees for everything, because the C math 
library uses radians, and more convenient than using radians.

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