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17 Apr 2025 08:49:07 EDT (-0400)
  Re: AT Devil Plate  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 4 Apr 2025 11:45:00
Message: <web.67effe60d1f5ea8e25b4de9225979125@news.povray.org>
"Droj" <803### [at] drojde> wrote:

> what I could not find out is how to apply thickness
>
> ThickIsoExterior=(Iso(x,y,z,1)*Iso(x,y,z,-1))


That's just a function - like any other.
You might have discontinuities, which would drive the gradient through the roof.

> and how to apply this condition
>
> F(x,y,z,t) = if(y<(44/10)&y>-(24/10),ThickIsoExterior((10*x/15),y,z,t),1)

There are likely several ways to go about this.
Enclosing the inequalities in parentheses evaluates them as a Boolean.
If you multiply them, if either one is false, then the product is zero.
If they are both true, then you get 1 * 1 = 1;
so you could try:

F(x,y,z,t) =
select ( (y<(44/10)) * (y>-(24/10)),
0, 1, ThickIsoExterior((10*x/15),y,z,t)
)

A zero gets added in to use the "4-parameter version" of select, and then since
false = 0, the 1 is the next parameter, and true = 1, so ThickIsoExterior is the
last parameter.

Hope that makes sense.

- BW

select(A, B, C [,D])
It can be used with three or four parameters Select compares the first argument
with zero, depending on the outcome it will return B, C or D. A,B,C,D can be
floats or funtions.

When used with three parameters, if A < 0 it will return B, else C (A >= 0).

When used with four parameters, if A < 0 it will return B. If A = 0 it will
return C. Else it will return D (A > 0).


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