POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : POV-Lab: plans and discussions : Re: POV-Lab: plans and discussions Server Time
4 May 2024 09:28:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Lab: plans and discussions  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 13 Feb 2023 11:33:49
Message: <63ea666d$1@news.povray.org>
Op 13-2-2023 om 12:26 schreef Bald Eagle:
> Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> 
>> Bill and Tor, many thanks for your explanations! I had not been aware of
>> this until now. Going to have a good look and play happily in the
>> POV-garden for a while. :-)
> 
> 
> Sure thing.
> I also do this sort of thing for sphere sweeps and prisms - all the data gets
> put into an array, and then I can make a spline for the sphere sweep, or use a
> loop and grab the xz data for the prism.
> 
> I can always move "forward" from an array, since the data is always fully
> accessible for anything I want to use it for.  I can't go "backward" if that
> data is hard-coded into some other single-purpose container.
> 

And as I am stupid, I forgot that - thanks to you - this technique was 
used in Granites_21! ;-/
I am getting old....

Thomas


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