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Date: 7 Dec 2001 03:49:20
Message: <bpv01ukllshfi81sgmuji4kk6tus0nscih@4ax.com>
On Thu, 06 Dec 2001 22:49:43 GMT, ken### [at] uniplanit (Angelo 'kENpEX' Pesce) wrote:
> I'm not doing any critic to current povray status

I feel it between lines :-)

> but many (not every) ppl here replyied me just saying this is
> impossible

Sometimes impossible according to POV, not impossible at all imo.

> that, povray already supports this thing and better than
> every other renderer

You should replace "and" with "sometimes" imo

> the thread just died...

There is nonsense for another repeat in the same thread.

> For example the nurbs stuff, most
> ppl here believed that those should be done by the modeller so the
> mesh support in povray was already the "state of the art".

Is there any universal modeller without nurbs traingulated just for screen
presentation?

> Well, when
> I demonstrated that most commercial renderers support nurbs directly
> noone talked about this, they said those ideas are already known...

They said it before your demonstration. And you missed other arguments.

> How can U tell that if many ppl believed that this was simply a bad
> thing to do?

But... who is "U" in this question ? Vahur ?

ABX
--
#declare _=function(a,b,x){((a^2)+(b^2))^.5-x}#default {pigment{color rgb 1}}
union{plane{y,-3}plane{-x,-3}finish{reflection 1 ambient 0}}isosurface{ //ABX
function{_(x-2,y,1)|_((x+y)*.7,z,.1)|_((x+y+2)*.7,z,.1)|_(x/2+y*.8+1.5,z,.1)}
contained_by{box{<0,-3,-.1>,<3,0,.1>}}translate z*15finish{ambient 1}}//POV35


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