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  Re: Clarifying some issues and a General RFC  
From: Fran & Melissa
Date: 12 Jul 1998 14:55:36
Message: <35a8f898.0@news.povray.org>
Ron Parker wrote in message <35a39212.0@news.povray.org>...

<A lot clipped>

>Great, that's what we need.  Fragment the language to hell and back so
>nobody stands a chance of understanding every flavor of it.  It's not the
>language that most people want improved, it's the available primitives,
>textures, and transformations.  The one thing I hear asked for over and
over
>is nonlinear transformations, but the reason that hasn't been done is
nobody
>knows how to do it.
>

The last bit about the non-linear transformations....

Don't have any idea how to do this but something like

matrix {
    <formula,formula,formula>

etc

Sorta like a translation matrix.

So to get the new point, take old point and move( change) by formula amount.

Just an idea. anyway


Fran.


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