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  Re: isosurface/function question  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 10 Nov 2000 09:30:30
Message: <3A0C0686.D8326DAB@schunter.etc.tu-bs.de>
Ken wrote:
> 
> It's not very intuitive however and probably should be changed
> at the parser level if at all possible.
> 
> One question does arise is how much does a random number do in
> a static equation. If you were running it through a loop I could
> understand using it but I see no real advantage to it the way
> that Ken illustrated it.
> 

I used it in a macro of my IsoWood include generating several random oriented
planes in the isosurface function.  The macro is called with a random seed as
parameter. Of course that's a quite rare construction.

Christoph

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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
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