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28 Jul 2024 20:24:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Beta29 isosurface badly broken  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 15 Nov 2008 10:47:22
Message: <491eef09@news.povray.org>
Slime wrote:
>>> isosurface { function { 2*sqrt(x*x+z*z)+y-1  }
>>
>> Mathematically the max gradient is 2.
> 
> At (1,0,0), the gradient is (2,1,0) with a magnitude of sqrt(5) or about
> 2.236.

Damn I wish I knew what the hell you're talking about :) "gradient" to me is
a setting that has to be big enough for isosurfaces to work. I have no idea
what it really means...


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