In the tutorial Ken mentioned (Advanced POV Animation for Beginners) -

1. That's the only unformatted code in the tutorial.

2. In 15 minutes it will be replaced.

My oversight - I left out the <pre> tags.


steve



Nieminen Mika wrote:

>   A little comment about the tutorial:
>   I hate to whine again about indentation, but you have to notice that the
> tutorial is written for all the people who want to read it. It's not only
> for yourself (here "you" means the author of the tutorial; I'm not completely
> sure who is it).
>   Since a tutorial should be extremely easy to understand, all the example
> codes should be it too. For example this:
>
> sphere{<0,0,0>,1 pigment{gradient x
> color_map{[0 rgb<1,0,0>][1 rgb 1]}}
> finish{ambient .4 diffuse .1 reflection .1 specular 1 roughness .001}
> rotate 360*y*clock}
>
> is a little confusing. Why so much obfuscation? I think that the purpose of
> the tutorial is not to make the reader to try to decipher the example code.
> You could make the codes a lot easier to understand, like:
>
> sphere
> {  <0,0,0>,1
>    pigment
>    {  gradient x
>       color_map
>       {  [0 rgb<1,0,0>]
>          [1 rgb 1]
>       }
>    }
>    finish { ambient .4 diffuse .1 reflection .1 specular 1 roughness .001 }
>
>    rotate 360*y*clock
> }
>
>   It takes more space, but it's a lot easier to understand. You can easyly
> see that the rotate command really applies to the sphere (and not to the
> pigment, for example).
>
>   I think this is not the place for an indentation war. As I said, I think
> that the tutorial is intended for anyone and it should be as easy to
> understand as possible.
>
> --
> 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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