POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : chess2.pov : Re: chess2.pov Server Time
30 Jul 2024 10:17:01 EDT (-0400)
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From: Jérôme Grimbert
Date: 21 Nov 2001 08:41:50
Message: <3BFBAF87.F527786C@atosorigin.com>
Warp wrote:
> 
> Bob H. <omn### [at] msncom> wrote:
> : I never knew whether it was intentional or not, only that I just had to give
> : it a second ear back when I was still using version 2.2.  Not sure anymore
> : what it takes to change it, seems it was rather simple though.  Something
> : like a cylinder which cuts across the top of the head is off to one side.
> : I just pretended it was meant to be one ear down and one up, but I seriously
> : wonder if it was really unintentional.  Guess we'll never know that because
> : I tried to locate the author and never heard from him.
> 
>   If it's an error, then it's a historical one, and thus worth preserving.

Oh, Come on...
it's an obvious typo, typing 'y' instead of 'z' for the rotate
of one of the y plane.
If the intend was really to NOT have two ears, 
why bother having a silly rotate ?

Or is the missing ear a kind of hidden watermark, just like cartographers do:
adding a false information on purpose, well hidden in the mass of the 
street names and road connections,
so that they can easily spot the bad guy(*) who ripe their works ?
(And then sue him with a full mob of lawyers...)


(*): PC: ...spot the bad girl who... ...then sue her with...


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