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  Re: Function image type mirrored vertically  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 8 Apr 2002 14:14:43
Message: <3cb1de13@news.povray.org>
In article <3cb1aec6@news.povray.org> , "Rune" <run### [at] mobilixnetdk>
wrote:

> The problem is that POV-Ray assumes the pattern function to have the origin
> in the upper left corner like all the other image types, when in fact
> patterns have the origin in the lower left corner *unlike* all the other
> image types. So just because all the other image types are reversed, it
> doesn't mean that the function image type should be too. Thorsten, I haven't
> yet heard your argument against this.

The function is evaluated as if (actually is) an image was generated from it.
Thus the evaluation takes place in the image space, not the scene space.

    Thorsten

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