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  Re: "mirror image" of image_map used in HF function  
From: Kenneth
Date: 3 Apr 2008 18:10:00
Message: <web.47f5624d4a8bd78778dcad930@news.povray.org>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Kenneth <kdw### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> > Does anyone know what the underlying reason is for the mirror imaging?
>
>   I have asked this exact same question in the past (with regard to
> creating heightfields from functions), and the answer is that nobody
> knows. I don't know who the original author of the HF code is, and nobody
> knows what he was thinking when he did that, or whether it was just a
> design error or bug. Certainly there doesn't seem to be any rational
> reason for it to behave like that.
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

Hey, an actual, real-life mystery. Fun!

KW


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