POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.documentation.inbuilt : SOR documentation : Re: SOR documentation Server Time
15 Sep 2025 08:19:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: SOR documentation  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 8 Sep 2025 14:10:00
Message: <web.68bf1b1d251da1bc937277d625979125@news.povray.org>
William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:

> First, Are you using v3.8 beta 2 for all your testing?
Probably.  Will confirm when I get home.

> Second, Did you take care when you did the differences with the box to
> not have coincident surfaces with the caps (if there) or that y height
> when the caps are not there?

Yeah, I have an E value set that I routinely use to avoid CS.
I had the caps present when I skipped adding/subtracting that, and then when I
fixed it, the caps went away.


> (*) I tried inverting all the on curve points and this does NOT work as
> I incorrectly remembered for some recent sor{} post - that must be a
> lathe{} only thing.

Right, because sor is an implicit interpolation, and lathe is a parametric
interpolation.

Thanks for checking on these.  Will compare notes when I get back later.

- BW


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