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  Re: subtle behavior of Spline_Trans() macro in transforms.inc  
From: Kenneth
Date: 23 Apr 2009 14:50:00
Message: <web.49f0b751987a083ff50167bc0@news.povray.org>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Kenneth <kdw### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> > ...In light of all that's been said, I think the only thing that *is*
> > needed is a caveat in the docs--perhaps in one of those yellow boxes--
> > something like this:
> > "Since it's mathematically difficult to determine EXACT alignment using
> > Foresight, a recommended lowest value is *-----*."
>
>   The problem is that there's not really a good lowest (or largest)
> recommended value because it depends on the spline itself.
>

Ah, I had a funny feeling that this might be the case.  Oh well...

Maybe a more prosaic warning in the docs could be this:
"WATCH OUT! You might choose a too-low Foresight value that will flip the
object(s) 90-degrees! If that happens--choose a higher one, dummy!"  ;-P

KW


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