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Am 29.02.2016 um 01:30 schrieb Bald Eagle:
> Alain <kua### [at] videotron ca> wrote:
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>> Translating a point is just the addition of some displacement to that point.
>> You can also do a scalling like operation by multiplying that point by
>> something like:
>> <1,2,3>*<8,7,6> is equivalent to scale <8,7,6>
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> Right, it's easy and simple once you see the solution clearly.
> I was (as usual) trying to overcomplicate it.
> I had "translate" in my head, and wanted to put a vector into a statement, but
> "points" are not POV-Ray primitives, and I was trying to use obj { translate {
> ...... arrrrrgggghhhh.
>
> Then I walked away from it for a bit, and I disabused my mind of that.
>
> Though in some way it seems like it ought to be possible to do exactly that...
Well, you _can_ use:
#declare MyTransform = transform { translate { ... } }
#declare Foo2 = vtransform(Foo1,MyTransform);
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