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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: The Daily WTF [again]
Date: 14 Feb 2008 15:40:01
Message: <web.47b4a7038379b9ac66f20de80@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Probably trying to scale them in same way and ending up with a zero
> denominator somewhere or something daft like that...

but why is the SVG perfect but not the povray export?  both are simple text
formats, the numbers in memory should go just as well for one as for the
other...


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From: Orchid XP v7
Subject: Re: The Daily WTF [again]
Date: 14 Feb 2008 15:43:17
Message: <47b4a7e5$1@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Probably trying to scale them in same way and ending up with a zero
>> denominator somewhere or something daft like that...
> 
> but why is the SVG perfect but not the povray export?  both are simple text
> formats, the numbers in memory should go just as well for one as for the
> other...

You'd think. But clearly it's trying to process one in a way it's not 
processing the other. I don't know, maybe for SVG it outputs the 
transformation matrix, but for POV-Ray it tries to *apply* the matrix 
and output the transformed results? *shrugs*

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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: The Daily WTF [again]
Date: 14 Feb 2008 16:03:33
Message: <47b4aca5@news.povray.org>

> Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Probably trying to scale them in same way and ending up with a zero
>> denominator somewhere or something daft like that...
> 
> but why is the SVG perfect but not the povray export?  both are simple text
> formats, the numbers in memory should go just as well for one as for the
> other...
> 

Bugs.


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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: The Daily WTF [again]
Date: 14 Feb 2008 16:04:27
Message: <47b4acdb$1@news.povray.org>

> You'd think. But clearly it's trying to process one in a way it's not 
> processing the other. I don't know, maybe for SVG it outputs the 
> transformation matrix, but for POV-Ray it tries to *apply* the matrix 
> and output the transformed results? *shrugs*
> 

Yeah that could be it. It tries to apply the transformation by itself, 
since POV-Ray doesn't support that :)


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From: Orchid XP v7
Subject: Re: The Daily WTF [again]
Date: 14 Feb 2008 16:07:05
Message: <47b4ad79$1@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Yeah that could be it. It tries to apply the transformation by itself, 
> since POV-Ray doesn't support that :)

Well, after all, SDL is only a dumb text format that hasn't moved over 
to XML yet.

[OK, let me just go hide before Warp beats me to a living pulp! ROFL!]

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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: The Daily WTF [again]
Date: 14 Feb 2008 16:08:52
Message: <47b4ade4@news.povray.org>
you know, this thread should be just called "The Damn Big WTF thread". 
Look at the size of the damn thing!  People have talked from M$ vs 
Linux, hardware compatibility, Inkscape, Mac mouses, wikipedia and 
whatever.

WTF?!!

how about moving it to an offtopic newsgroups of its own? ;)


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From: Orchid XP v7
Subject: Re: The Daily WTF [again]
Date: 14 Feb 2008 16:10:34
Message: <47b4ae4a$1@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
> you know, this thread should be just called "The Damn Big WTF thread". 
> Look at the size of the damn thing!  People have talked from M$ vs 
> Linux, hardware compatibility, Inkscape, Mac mouses, wikipedia and 
> whatever.
> 
> WTF?!!
> 
> how about moving it to an offtopic newsgroups of its own? ;)

ph33r my thread!

Damn, every time anybody replies, I get a mild case of RSI just 
scrolling the damn scroll wheel down to the bottom to find out where the 
new post is! o_O

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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: The Daily WTF [again]
Date: 14 Feb 2008 16:18:26
Message: <47b4b022$1@news.povray.org>

> you know, this thread should be just called "The Damn Big WTF thread". 
> Look at the size of the damn thing!  People have talked from M$ vs 
> Linux, hardware compatibility, Inkscape, Mac mouses, wikipedia and 
> whatever.
> 
> WTF?!!
> 
> how about moving it to an offtopic newsgroups of its own? ;)

How about doing the right thing and changing the post Subject: field 
when the subject actually changes? :)


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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: The Daily WTF [again]
Date: 14 Feb 2008 16:18:44
Message: <47b4b034$1@news.povray.org>

> nemesis wrote:
>> you know, this thread should be just called "The Damn Big WTF thread". 
>> Look at the size of the damn thing!  People have talked from M$ vs 
>> Linux, hardware compatibility, Inkscape, Mac mouses, wikipedia and 
>> whatever.
>>
>> WTF?!!
>>
>> how about moving it to an offtopic newsgroups of its own? ;)
> 
> ph33r my thread!
> 
> Damn, every time anybody replies, I get a mild case of RSI just 
> scrolling the damn scroll wheel down to the bottom to find out where the 
> new post is! o_O
> 

I just press n (select next unread post).


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From: Orchid XP v7
Subject: Re: The Daily WTF [again]
Date: 14 Feb 2008 16:22:52
Message: <47b4b12c$1@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> How about doing the right thing and changing the post Subject: field 
> when the subject actually changes? :)

I commend the idea to the house!

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