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From: wayne461
Subject: Re: drawing a grid on playing board
Date: 14 Apr 2006 22:45:00
Message: <web.44405e18bdfec3f3fee8fb0b0@news.povray.org>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> wayne461 <wde### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
>
>   The easiest? On what do you base that claim?
>
>   In your opinion instead of reading a clear explanation in English how
> people have done it, it's easier to take someone's code, decipher it
> ("reverse engineer") and try to copy it?
>
>   I disagree. Understanding someone else's code is always much more
> difficult than understanding that someone else's clear explanation of
> how he has done it.
>   Of course trying to understand someone else's code is *one* way of
> doing it, but in no way the *easiest* way.
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

You are right, Warp. I should have said it may help to have a look at how
someone else did it in code that is available at the useful POVRAY objects
collection.


Wayne


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