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30 Jul 2024 14:19:07 EDT (-0400)
  Re: request for list  
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Date: 29 Oct 2001 05:24:45
Message: <m9bqtt8pfnaiuqgpvuo6j18tig4j1ecug8@4ax.com>
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 11:04:27 +0100, "Thorsten Froehlich"
<tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

> Personally I think such a list would not be a good idea because out of ten
> people who read it one will end up making assumptions and send suggestions
> or complaints to the team. This would flood the team with (useless)
> suggestions how to fix or change this and that from people who don't know
> the usually very complex technical details.

I thought about list with note "no discussion about it, there are more
important things to do ;-)". This could stop some testers to send
"this still not works" after every beta version.

> I am not making this up, this
> has already happened* (once) during the 3.5 public beta :-(

If you have such experience you are probably right.

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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