Dan P wrote:
> Xplo Eristotle wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
>> 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*
> 
> I have to disagree; some may consider scale 2*y is more readable in the 
> code than scale <1, 2, 1>. Actually, I think POV-Ray shouldn't even warn 
> about it.

At risk of starting to sound seriously pedantic...

It didn't SAY 2*y, did it? No, it said 0.

Go on, tell me what "scale 0" is good for. ;p

-Xplo

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