Karl J. Anders <kar### [at] webde> wrote:
> Thank you for precise expression of my thoughts - with one additional
> sidestep ;) : since simpleness obviously is NOT a valid criterion for
> exclusion ( didn't you mention VDist before ?), the reason for INclusion
> probably is, that since many people can (and WILL) write such a macro, it's
> helpful to provide it, so that there's just one name for that functionality
> floating around, which simplifies exchange of scene files - and that's all I
> wanted to express.

  You know... Due to the way the parser is currently implemented, a macro
in an include file separate from the main .pov-file is slower to parse than
if the macro was located in the main file. Thus if you call the macro a lot
of times and you write the macro in your main .pov-file, it will parse
faster. :P

> All in all, vnormalize is as redundant as the "^"-operator, because even the
> docs describe its definition in terms of other POV-functions, so for
> consistency it should be removed too ... ;)

  At least it's a lot faster as a builtin function, if nothing else...

-- 
#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -

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