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9 Aug 2024 11:27:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: undocumented isosurfaces functions  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 27 Jul 2000 09:10:08
Message: <slrn8o0dsu.udn.ron.parker@fwi.com>
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 14:11:33 +0200, Gilles Tran wrote:
>Fabien Mosen wrote:
>
>> Could someone explain to me, briefly, the meaning of the following
>> isosurfaces functions :
>>
>> r, s, %, min(), max().
>
>min and max : see the file texture1.pov in the megapov demos, for
>instance :
>#declare GRID1=    function  {min(min(abs(cos(z)),
>abs(cos(y))),abs(cos(x)))}
>
>r,s : something from the isoblob ?

% is the modulo operator, I'd guess.  (a%b) is the remainder when you divide
a by b.

I think r and s are reserved words but they don't actually do anything.  It
was a feature that was never completely implemented or something.

-- 
Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.


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