On 5 Feb 2003 09:23:08 -0500, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>   Some main ideas about the signatures is that they should be as short as
> possible, and as obfuscated as possible (so that you simply have no idea
> what it will render) and when rendered, they will show a nice image, preferably
> with your name/initials/nick in it.

IMO POV signatures are also nice tutorials what SDL can and how to write some
simple effects without unnecessary overloading. Of course it requires usually
"unrolling" of script which can be another lesson of SDL. I consider sigs as
an optional stage in SDL experience.

ABX
-- 
disc{z,-z#macro O()asc(substr("-+((1*(,1,/.-,*/(,&.323/'1"e 1))/10-4#declare
e=e-1;#end#local e=26;5pigment{#local g=function(_){ceil(_)-_}function#local
k=function{pattern{object{sphere_sweep{linear_spline 13#while(e)<O()O()>.01#
end}}}}{k(g(atan2(x,y)),g(ln(pow(x+y,2)+1e-5)),0)}}finish{ambient 1}}//ABX35

Post a reply to this message