Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> 
> Who's that Pascal programmer ?   Is it me or you ?
> 
> =)
> 

;-)

> [...]
> 
> Using patterns for heightfields is new to me.
> 
> MegaPOV feature ?
> 

Yes, i'm not using it much, but it can be useful if you don't want to
carry around a large image file for example.  

> 
> I wonder why there are such basic functions
> missing from the POV-language.
> 
> Even my stone-age-Casio had the frac() function.
> 

It's not much problem IMO, because it can quickly be typed with 'R-int(R)'
or done with a macro.  I think it would probably not be much used with
povray anyway, at least less often than the 'sgn()' function Chris
mentioned.

Christoph

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