I present, for your enjoyment, the single dumbest method of creating a
rounded cube.

isosurface {
  function {
z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z*z +

y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y*y +

x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x }
  threshold 100000000000

[etc..]
                }


(Do isosurfaces support the pow(A,B) function? I tried, and it didn't
work)

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In article <385BEF15.38346E0D@istar.ca>, sde### [at] istarca wrote:

> (Do isosurfaces support the pow(A,B) function? I tried, and it didn't
> work)

They support the ^ operator, which does the same thing(use A^B instead 
of pow(A,B)). I thought they supported the pow() function, but they 
don't seem to anymore, and I can't find anywhere in my scenes where I 
used that function. I like the ^ operator better, though, I even wrote a 
little patch which allows it in ordinary expressions.

-- 
Chris Huff
e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

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Chris Huff wrote:

> In article <385BEF15.38346E0D@istar.ca>, sde### [at] istarca wrote:
>
> > (Do isosurfaces support the pow(A,B) function? I tried, and it didn't
> > work)
>
> They support the ^ operator, which does the same thing(use A^B instead
> of pow(A,B)). I thought they supported the pow() function, but they
> don't seem to anymore, and I can't find anywhere in my scenes where I
> used that function. I like the ^ operator better, though, I even wrote a
> little patch which allows it in ordinary expressions.

Yeah.. but my technique is dumber :)

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Simon de Vet wrote:
> 
> I present, for your enjoyment, the single dumbest method of creating a
> rounded cube.

Dumb is as dumb does...


This gives a little larger corner/edge radius -

 isosurface {
   function { sin(x^30)+sin(y^30)+sin(z^30) }
   threshold 1
            }


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