Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message news:3922afc2@news.povray.org...
> david sharp <dsh### [at] interportnet> wrote:
> : The cpow function needs both arguments to be 'complex';
> : To do Z^2 with cpow, you need to do cpow(Z,<2,0>)
>
>   Ah, ok.
>   I said this by mail already, but let me say it again here:
>   It would be more intuitive if cpow() would accept either a float or
> a complex.

That would be helpful, but implementation is complicated
by the way POV-Ray promotes a float (say 2.0) to a VECTOR
(becomes <2.0,2.0,2.0> ) when it is expecting a vector. So
cpow(Z,2) becomes cpow(Z,<2,2>) rather than the desired
cpow(Z,<2,0>). The simplest way to implement float exponents
would be to have a new function (eg crpow(Z,X) )

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