In povray.binaries.animations Rune <rune.johansen@iname.com> wrote:

> "Chris Huff" wrote:
>> "Rune" wrote:
>> > Also, my macro gives the user full control over the deformation.
>> > How would the user control the deformation in your patch? (I mean
>> > the deformations for meshes.)
>>
>> Similar to the way patterns and warps are done: a set of predefined
>> deformations and maybe function-defined deformations. Maybe warps too.

> Predefined deformations does not give the user full control. Nor do warps.

> POV-Ray functions returns floats and not vectors, don't they?

> The only way the user can get full control, is by using functions where both
> input and output are vectors.

Well, they could always define a function for each of x,y,z.  Little messy,
though.

Geoff

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