Op 24/10/2019 om 16:57 schreef William F Pokorny:
> On 10/24/19 6:52 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> Op 23/10/2019 om 15:38 schreef William F Pokorny:
> ...
>>>
>>> Are you able to compile personal versions of POV-Ray?
>>
>> I prefer to wait for a release; no hurry ;-)
> 
> :-) In that, I expect you intended to touch upon my standing quandary.
> 
> Prior to bailing on pull requests altogether, nothing of mine got into 
> POV-Ray proper after an initial set of 30 or so commits - and that's OK. 
> It just is. Nobody is being paid to deal with my pile of junk or to do 
> the grunt work of releases.
> 
> My recent path has been to do what I'm interested in and to provide that 
> code as branches so anyone interested - and compiling versions of 
> POV-Ray themselves - can play.
> 
> To do releases requires I commit to doing them in some fashion - that I 
> commit time. Against such an investment I'm looking of late at 
> relatively major code and structural changes to finish off the solver 
> stuff I've been at a long time; at a practical break with the official 
> POV-Ray code base.
> 
> I'm uncertain how to proceed with my hobby. This VM / pattern / built in 
> function stuff of late(1) is me procrastinating.
> 
> In any case, it's good you're in no hurry for a release of my recent 
> changes! :-)
> 
> (1) - A faster multi-object pattern capability is on my list of ideas 
> for additional inbuilt functions, but not one near the top. It's the 
> case the inside testing, upon which the object pattern is built, is 
> often slow.
> 

In general I prefer to keep clear of compiling as such. It is not my 
strongest point nor my primary interest. However, I hope that, one way 
or another, your investigations get into the main branch somehow. I 
guess there are lot of goodies worth to be offered to the simple users 
at large, like me :-)

>>
>>>
>>> I cleaned up the scene this morning as instructive of technique even 
>>> without a version of POV-Ray with which to use it.
>>
>> I shall study this; Thank you indeed.
>>
> 
> Sorry to see this morning my scrub failed to remove three pointless 
> declares in Jade0, FnRadialRaw and FnYYOffRaw.
> 
> The technique boils down to having raw_wave, three turbulence 
> specifications applied to three y plane 'sheets' and the three gradient 
> values to dial in how much of the turbulence fuzz the rays pick up. The 
> rest is normal scene stuff - at which you are more capable than me.
> 

Oh well, I shall do my best. I find your basic technique interesting and 
shall first investigate how using other wave forms apply.

> I'm away now for several days.
> 
> Bill P.


-- 
Thomas

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