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  Re: POV-Ray for geeks only?  
From: Charles C
Date: 25 Feb 2007 17:25:01
Message: <web.45e20c756eb36925b160ffde0@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v3 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> Very geeky cool!
> >
> > Though the point was that I'm not a geek. I am a manual laborer.
>
> Manual laborers can be geeks too - these are not muturally exclusive. ;-)
>
> >> I'm nerdy enough to ask my first question is:
> >> what's the formula?
> >
> > Wrong question. There is no formula. This is not some mathematical
> > surface or quickie fractal. This is hours and hours spent constructing a
> > shape which happens to have polyhedral symmetry. This is hundreds of
> > thousands of triangles arranged as one would arrange bricks and wood
> > into a house (blindfolded).
>
> Um... how the hell do you make curved surfaces out of flat angular things?

Splines & macros.  He did say hundreds of thousands afterall....

Shay, you DID use a few #while loops right? ;-)


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