POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.documentation.inbuilt : image function : Re: image function Server Time
5 May 2024 08:46:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: image function  
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Date: 25 Feb 2002 04:30:28
Message: <cn0k7u418hamsemt0a4r877oi7j5m8hbeb@4ax.com>
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:21:42 +0100, "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde>
wrote:
> There is a difference between "does not make sense" and "would be possible":

Right

> If you want a smooth pattern, use pattern functions and not the function
> image.

But when calculations of this functions are very complicated and this pattern
is intersected many times (for example via reflections) then image function is
afaik only alternative to speed things up.

> If you just want a smooth "effect", set the appropriate interpolation
> when using the generated image.

That's not the same, you know it.

ABX


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