POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Help with CGS : Re: Help with CGS Server Time
6 Sep 2024 02:22:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Help with CGS  
From: Ken
Date: 16 Apr 1999 05:07:48
Message: <3716EE77.2B49791E@pacbell.net>
Markus Becker wrote:
> 
> Ken wrote:
> >
> > while loop. The correct way to implement a merge using a csg is like the
> > example below. It is your while loop rearranged to operate correctly.
> > When using a CSG within a while loop you must move the merge statement
> > outside the while statement or it is not acted upon correctly. Don't
> > ask me why this is so but I found after many hair pulling sessions and
> > then finaly by asking in these groups how to solve my problem.
> 
> What do you expect? If you have the "merge" _inside_ the #while
> loop, POV creates a "merge"-object fo each pass through the
> loop. That's the way things work. No need to ask "why?"
> 
> Markus

Not altogether a programmer type and struggling to use what I can of these
functions I expect no more or no less than what I can figure out myself
of from what I can learn from the generous guidance of others. What is
intuitively obvious to you is sometimes heap big juju magic to me.

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net


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