POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Old Lathe <wip> : Re: Old Lathe <wip> Server Time
11 Aug 2024 13:22:36 EDT (-0400)
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From: Xplo Eristotle
Date: 12 Apr 2004 00:22:59
Message: <407a19a3@news.povray.org>
Dan P wrote:
> Xplo Eristotle wrote:
> 
>> Oh yeah, and don't scale anything by 0. That's just dumb. I'm actually 
>> surprised POV-Ray let you get away with it.
> 
> POV-Ray will default to 1 when it finds a 0. For example, if you choose 
> to "scale 2*y", it will warn you about it and say it is using 1 instead.

Which is the same thing you'd get by having no scale at all.

Hence, it's redundant, meaningless, useless, and misleading all at the 
same time. Sounds dumb to me. *shrug*

-Xplo


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