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28 Apr 2024 15:24:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Function/ pattern issues. New pattern_modifiers keyword.  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 1 Nov 2019 13:55:00
Message: <web.5dbc7108a84215994eec112d0@news.povray.org>
William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:

> What's missing is a way to access the x,y,z vector result of all the
> modifiers a pigment / pattern might employ.

> Then pattern_modifier {} grabs just the result of those
> operations for a given point returning the function/pattern space
> adjusted x,y,z values. The usage is something like:

Yes, this will be very nice indeed.



Just curious:
Being eyeballs-deep in the function code, what do you think the odds are that
there will be functions that can return <x, y, z> vectors for user use, say in
the next year or so?


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