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  Re: Odd behavior of 1/sqrt functions in iso_surface  
From: Christopher James Huff
Date: 9 Mar 2004 09:09:28
Message: <cjameshuff-D426FF.09092809032004@news.povray.org>
In article <404d70a9@news.povray.org>,
 Richard Kline <rkl### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:

> Since the Gravitational potential is a function of 1/r the function used 
> is 1/sqrt(x*x+y*y+z*z)

Others have already mentioned the singularity problems at <x, y, z> = 0. 
In addition, gravitational fields have an inverse *square* falloff, 
1/r^2.

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