// This exercise is from the 2.2.7.1  Transformations, scale and translate
section of
// the PovRay tutorial,
// but it seems to have returned unexpected results
// can you render this? thanks


  #include "colors.inc"

    camera
    {
       location <16, 32, -20.0>
       look_at  <8, 8,  0.0>
    }

    plane
    {
       y, -1.0
       pigment {
       checker color Gray65 color Gray30
               }
    }

light_source { <5, 10, 0> color White }
light_source { <-5, 10, 10> color White }


    sphere { < 2, 2, 2 >,1  // draws sphere at this location
      pigment { Blue }
      scale <4,3,.5>       // squishes and strectches according to scale
           }

    sphere { < 0, 3, 0 >,1  // draws sphere at this location
      pigment { Green }
      scale 2               // doubles the diameter of sphere
           }


    sphere { <10, 10, 10>,1 // draws sphere at this location for reference point
      pigment { Orange }
           }


    //// Please explain why these spheres where translated to a new location
after being scaled, thanks


    sphere { <12, 10, 10>,1 // draws sphere at this location, should be next to
Orange
      pigment { Yellow }
      scale < 3,2,4 >      // squishes and strectches according to scale, but
where did it go??
      // comment this scale out, to see Yellow sphere
           }

    sphere { <10, 10, 10>,1
      pigment { Red }
      translate 4*x         // draws sphere at <14,10,10>, should be next to
Yellow next to Orange
      scale <2,.4,.5>       // squishes and strectches according to scale, but
where did it go??
      // comment this scale out, to see Red sphere

           }

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