Hi,
anyone maybe have idea how to shorten

  L(y)L(y)L(z)L(z)L(x)L(x)
and
  union{... rotate R*90translate T scale.5}
?

Btw, in some case You can skip an colon ',' between macro arguments, this 
is expected behaviour? M(1,x) could become M(1x) other nice tricks are 
ofcourse writting  xxx 1 yyy 2  as  xxx 1yyy 2  and xxx 0.3 as xxx.3

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> Hi,
> anyone maybe have idea how to shorten
>
>   L(y)L(y)L(z)L(z)L(x)L(x)

Nope, not unless I know the macros and have an idea how they might simply do
double output.

> and
>   union{... rotate R*90translate T scale.5}

Maybe the objects in the union could be scaled by .5 directly (e.g. using
radius of .5 instead of 1 for a sphere) but you'd have to add less than 7
digits for that to have an effect. Otherwise, I don't know. It's kinda
difficult to shorten such little code without the background of why and
where it is needed, and how you arrive there. Sometimes, you can leave
things out way earlier, or make them a little different, but thereby save
some amount of code later on.

Regards,
Tim

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(ups I posted to quite wrong n-g so now FUT: to .general)

>> anyone maybe have idea how to shorten
>>   L(y)L(y)L(z)L(z)L(x)L(x)
> Nope, not unless I know the macros and have an idea how they might
> simply do double output.

it's impossible to shorten L() macro itself probably

code is in .b.i

 
>> and
>>   union{... rotate R*90translate T scale.5}
> Maybe the objects in the union could be scaled by .5 directly (e.g.

same as above. I was thinking, wasn't it be shorten to use matrix syntax?



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