POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Am I being stupid or is this an bug? : Re: Am I being stupid or is this an bug? Server Time
29 Jul 2024 02:26:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Am I being stupid or is this an bug?  
From: Hugo
Date: 9 Jan 2007 20:50:00
Message: <web.45a444bcd6f7125d5bf604f0@news.povray.org>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Hugo <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > It's amazing I got away with no errors for the other 600 odd atoms.
>
>   <1 -2 3> is equivalent to <-1, 3>, which is equivalent to <-1, 3, 0>
> which is a valid vector and thus you won't get an error.
>
>   <1 -2 -3> is equivalent to <-4> which is not a valid vector and thus
> you got the error.
>
>   Always use commas to avoid this kind of mixup. (There's a good reason
> to support values without commas, but that's a different story.)
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

Thanks for the information, I won't ask about the different story :o

My protein is much better now, I did a count it has 693 atoms in it, well no
I didn't, the PDB has this information at the bottom, but you know what I
mean.


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.