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31 Jul 2024 04:16:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Confused about "waves"  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 14 Sep 2001 10:11:36
Message: <3ba21018$1@news.povray.org>
In article <3BA1F5F9.53C34A9C@aol.com> , Dave Dunn <poi### [at] aolcom>  
wrote:

>> The thing that's strange is that a function's two dimensions are coded as x
>> and y, but the object is oriented in the x,z plane.
>
> I guess this is just one of the prices for using functions absolutely
> everywhere in the program. The x/y orientation works great for a pigment

It also works great for functions that use u/v instead of x/y.  This allows
reusing of parametric functions.


    Thorsten


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