POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : <1, 0, 0> + 1*t : Re: <1, 0, 0> + 1*t Server Time
20 Apr 2024 06:10:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: <1, 0, 0> + 1*t  
From: Christopher James Huff
Date: 21 Jan 2002 09:53:23
Message: <chrishuff-939110.09541921012002@netplex.aussie.org>
In article <3c4c286d$1@news.povray.org>,
 "Anders K." <and### [at] prostard2gcom> wrote:

> To make it more clear, this script:
>   #debug concat(str((<1, 0, 0> + t*1).t, 0, -1), "\n")
>   #debug concat(str((<1, 0, 0> + 1*t).t, 0, -1), "\n")
> outputs:
>   1.000000
>   0.000000
> even though the two results should be identical.

The problem seems to be that "1" gets expanded to "< 1, 1, 1, 0, 0>", 
this works as expected:
#declare FourD1 = < 1, 1, 1, 1>;
#debug concat(str((<1, 0, 0> + t*FourD1).filter, 0, -1), "\n")
#debug concat(str((<1, 0, 0> + FourD1*t).filter, 0, -1), "\n")

So at least there's a workaround...

-- 
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Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom>


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