Hallo,

a Parse-Error is produced at the call of these
function examples with Pov3.5.

# declare MyTorus = function for {"torus" < 1, 0.3 >}
# declare MySphere = function {"sphere" < 1 >}
isosurface { function {MyTorus (x, y, z), & MySphere (x, y +0.5, z)}

# declare MyTorus = { function "torus" < < ---- ERROR
Parse Error: Expected 'operand' < found instead

Isn't this syntax supported by POV3.5?

-=Petra=-

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Petra Mueller <fr-### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> Isn't this syntax supported by POV3.5?

  You should read the documentation to see the syntax for functions.

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Petra Mueller wrote:
> 
> Hallo,
> 
> a Parse-Error is produced at the call of these
> function examples with Pov3.5.
> 
> # declare MyTorus = function for {"torus" < 1, 0.3 >}
> # declare MySphere = function {"sphere" < 1 >}
> isosurface { function {MyTorus (x, y, z), & MySphere (x, y +0.5, z)}
> 
> # declare MyTorus = { function "torus" < < ---- ERROR
> Parse Error: Expected 'operand' < found instead
> 
> Isn't this syntax supported by POV3.5?

This is no valid code, not even for megapov.  Have a look at the
documentation and the sample scenes for correct declaration of functions
and use in isosurfaces.

You probably want something like:

#include "functions.inc"

#declare MySphere = function { f_sphere(x, y, z, 1) }
#declare MyTorus = function { f_torus(x, y, z, 1, 0.3) }

isosurface { function { min(MyTorus(x, y, z), MySphere(x, y +0.5, z)) }


Christoph

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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>:

>   You should read the documentation to see the syntax for functions.

this is was, however have difficulties understanding the engliche
documentation I. sorry.
I hope, my is English understandably.

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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>:

>> # declare MyTorus = function for {"torus" < 1, 0.3 >}

my translator has this stupid 'for' for this purpose put.
The line should read:
> # declare MyTorus = function  {"torus" < 1, 0.3 >}
sorry.


aufmerksam und machte einen Versuch mit "wt_stb.pov".

Ich hatte deine Einleitung so verstanden, das Pov3.5 hierzu kompatibel


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Petra Mueller wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 

> aufmerksam und machte einen Versuch mit "wt_stb.pov".

> Ich hatte deine Einleitung so verstanden, das Pov3.5 hierzu kompatibel


Hmm, ich werde zur Klarstellung '#version unofficial MegaPov 0.7;'






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How about discussing that in povray.international?

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#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
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Christoph mentioned that in his last sentence...

Its a pity that we haven't found the universal
language yet. It would make raytracing that
much easier... ;)

Warp wrote:

>   How about discussing that in povray.international?
>

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"Tim Nikias" <tim### [at] gmxde> wrote:

> Its a pity that we haven't found the universal
> language yet. It would make raytracing that
> much easier... ;)

what ? ...
POV-SDL is not the universal language ?

#declare i=3;
#while (i>0)
#debug "wondering ...\n"
#declare i=i-1;
#end

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