POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : Superpatch built-in functions : Re: Superpatch built-in functions Server Time
2 Sep 2024 14:18:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Superpatch built-in functions  
From: David Wilkinson
Date: 16 Jul 1999 14:34:51
Message: <379057ef.580831@news.povray.org>
On 16 Jul 1999 09:05:49 -0400, par### [at] fwicom (Ron Parker) wrote:

>On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 22:36:18 GMT, David Wilkinson wrote:
>>On 15 Jul 1999 16:21:25 -0400, par### [at] fwicom (Ron Parker) wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>The quotes in the docs are significant:
>>>
>>>isosurface {  function { "Sphere" 1 }  pigment { Red}}
>>
>>Thanks for the prompt response Ron, but this doesn't work either, the diagnostic
>>is "missing right brace in function".
>>I tried;
>>isosurface {  function  { "Sphere, 1" }  pigment { Red}}
>>which gave the diagnostic "cannot load function"
>>
>>Incidently I can't find any reference to quotes in the docs.
>
>Hm, you're right.  They must have somehow gotten lost in the 
>translation.  Here's the syntax that works for me:
>
>isosurface {  function { "Sphere" <1> }  pigment { color red 1}}

Thanks Ron, thats it!  It's the angle brackets wot done it.  I've got too used
to the easy going syntax of POV-Ray :-)
David
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