POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : The decline of mindpower : Re: The decline of mindpower Server Time
1 Oct 2024 05:17:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The decline of mindpower  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 23 Jul 2008 22:12:32
Message: <4887e50f@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> By complete coincidence, I spent my afternoon today reading about magmas
> and groups and rings and quasigroups and semigroups and groupoids and
> rings and skew rings and splitting fields and fields of factors and
> polynomial rings and that whole zoo of other things... Apparently
> "vector field" doesn't mean what you'd expect at all! :-D

And I've yet to figure out how to solve t out of

(X0 + Xd * t - Xc)^2 + (Y0 + Yd * t - Yc)^2 + (Z0 + Zd * t - Zc)^2 = Sr^2


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.