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  Re: subtle behavior of Spline_Trans() macro in transforms.inc  
From: clipka
Date: 20 Apr 2009 11:30:01
Message: <web.49ec93cc987a083f305d384e0@news.povray.org>
.... and here we have your first reply to my posting:

----- You:
clipka <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> It's fundamentally impossible to do that.

> To compute a tangent to an arbitrary curve defined as f(t) (the value of which
> in this case is a vector), you need the derivative f'(t) of that function,

  I find those two sentences contradictory. First you say that it's
impossible, and immediately after you tell how it's done.

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                                                          - Warp
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You already misunderstood my posting at this point, and never made an attempt to
change that. Things went from bad to worse from here on.


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