Ah yes, the cube! It's so obvious now in comparing the two objects........

Chris Huff wrote:

> In article <389e0905@news.povray.org>, "Greg M. Johnson"
> <"gregj;-)56590"@aol.c;-)om> wrote:
>
> > The "dents" pattern below almost looks plateau-free, although not
> > exaclty "smooth" as the ideal function I'm looking for would have.
> > "Bumps" has plateaus.  So how are dents and bumps different?
>
> Probably the reason it appears to not have any plateaus is the way it
> curves near the edge of the plateau. The action of cubing the value
> might make it curve so the flat area is almost indistinguishable.
>
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