POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : #declares and memory management : Re: #declares and memory management Server Time
18 Aug 2024 14:16:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: #declares and memory management  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 28 May 2001 03:22:27
Message: <3b11fcb3@news.povray.org>
In article <3b11d751$1@news.povray.org> , "Mark Wagner" 
<mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:

> You mean, like the spline{} patch in MegaPOV?  The code for that is a mess.
> Splines are limited to 256 entries, the "cubic splines" are actually an
> average of two quadratic splines, none of the code is commented, and in
> general, the whole thing needs to be re-written from scratch.

A limit of 256 entries?  Good to know, another bug to add to the list - I
guess the original author was not sure how to dynamically grow a block of
memory in C <sigh>


    Thorsten


____________________________________________________
Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
e-mail: tho### [at] trfde

Visit POV-Ray on the web: http://mac.povray.org


Post a reply to this message

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