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  Re: Spiral pattern with uniform angular density  
From: Nieminen Mika
Date: 23 Jul 1999 06:37:12
Message: <379845d8@news.povray.org>
Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
: What is the purpose of using rand in this declare ?

: ---> #declare minphi= -pi + dphi*rand(R)*.5;

  It has no purpose. I didn't know what to put there (1? 0? 0.5? something
else?) so I just replicated it from the C code.
  I tried substituting it with '1', but saw no difference.
  I think Nathan can answer to this question.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/


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