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7 Aug 2024 09:25:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Disc which is not flat  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 30 Nov 2001 16:07:46
Message: <slrna0ft94.9k.ron.parker@fwi.com>
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 22:01:49 +0100, Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> In article <3C07F02B.A1CD5A65@aol.com> , Dave Dunn <poi### [at] aolcom>  
> wrote:
> 
>> That's a bit extreme, isn't it? It is obviously easier, from a user's
>> standpoint, to type scale y*.1 than scale <1,.1,1>, and most of us do it
> 
> I think you got something wrong here!  scale y*.1 is perfectly equivalent
> with scale <1,.1,1> in POV-Ray and has nothing to do with what Warp is
> talking about...

Actually, it's equivalent to scale <0,.1,0> (except that we change it to 
<1,.1,1> and print a warning) and is in fact exactly what Warp is talking 
about: he thinks the warning should be an error instead.  Or at least it 
appears so to me; perhaps he would like to clarify.

-- 
#local R=rgb 99;#local P=R-R;#local F=pigment{gradient x}box{0,1pigment{gradient
y pigment_map{[.5F pigment_map{[.3R][.3F color_map{[.15red 99][.15P]}rotate z*45
translate x]}]#local H=pigment{gradient y color_map{[.5P][.5R]}scale 1/3}[.5F
pigment_map{[.3R][.3H][.7H][.7R]}]}}}camera{location.5-3*z}//only my opinions


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