POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : no_image behaviour : Re: no_image behaviour Server Time
5 May 2024 06:05:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: no_image behaviour  
From: jr
Date: 19 Jun 2018 09:30:00
Message: <web.5b2905056d52b562635cc5ad0@news.povray.org>
hi,

"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> > you mean like WF Pokorny suggests in
> > http://news.povray.org/5b279884%241%40news.povray.org?
> Yeah - I just got around to reading through his code before to see that that's
> what he was actually doing.  I had a hard time implementing it from scratch, as
> I'm still struggling with the context and syntax for using patterns in
> functions.
>
> POV-Ray didn't like this:
> density {
>      function {pattern {
>           object {Intersector
>                color_map {
>                     [0.0 rgb 0]
>                     [0.5 rgb 0]
>                     [0.5 rgb 1]
>                     [1.0 rgb 1]
>                 }
>            }}
>      }
> }
>
> > the whole concept is new to me.
>
> Try these:
> http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/tex/tex_560e.htm
> http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/tex/tex_561e.htm
> http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/tex/tex_562e.htm

thanks.  I will have to get v3.8 installed first though.  next couple of days
or so, is the plan.

> Hoping you work this out - the idea seems very cool, and I'm _really_ looking
> forward to seeing the animation!

phew.  no pressure then.  ;-)


regards, jr.


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