POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : VPerp_To_Vector() macro bug, also Axial_Scale_Trans() : Re: VPerp_To_Vector() macro bug, also Axial_Scale_Trans() Server Time
29 Jul 2024 12:24:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: VPerp_To_Vector() macro bug, also Axial_Scale_Trans()  
From: Anders K 
Date: 14 May 2002 14:12:22
Message: <3ce15386@news.povray.org>
It's even simpler to note that by Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem (any
continuous mapping of a unit ball to itself will have a fixed point), if
VPerp_To_Vector() could be made continuous, there would be at least one unit
vector that is "perpendicular" to itself. Whoops!

Anders


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