Christopher James Huff wrote:
> 
> The "listed" pattern looks like the "solid" pattern from my old patch
> tutorial and MegaPOV+. Frankly, I like my name better, "listed" gives no
> impression of what the result is. 

'solid' is also used for crackle solid so this might lead to confusion.

> 
> I'm a bit irritated...I had asked to be included in updating my patches
> for the new version. The displace warp is outdated, and updating the old
> glow patch was a waste of time, the new one I'm working on isn't even
> based on any of the same code. From the documentation, it looks like you
> didn't even get the latest old version...glows should allow warps as
> well as other transformations.

Having not been around while those features were added i don't know about
the details.
  
Concerning the displace warp - i was planning to add a new function warp
(as well as warp functions, i think those things have been discussed
somewhere previously) and therefore voted for not including the displace
warp but the others thought it would be good to add it for convenience.  

Concerning glows: warps and transformations are supported.  A new glow
patch - sounds good, give it a few days rest but i am pretty sure we can
arrange something.  It should be obvious that none of the MegaPOV features
will stay as it is forever and features can also vanish again when there
is a new better solution. So don't worry too much about possibly outdated
functions. 

Christoph

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you're king:))
you're cool

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>
> MegaPOV is a collection of unofficial extensions for the freeware
> raytracer POV-Ray.  It is maintained by a group of POV-Community
> members - the MegaPOV Team. It was rewritten for POV-Ray 3.5
> source code and it is now available at its new website:
>
> http://megapov.inetart.net/
>
> Go, download, read documentation, have fun.
>
> Let's start New Year with new quality! :-)
>
> MegaPOV Team

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Really good gift!

Best regards,
Hugo

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Thank you, thank you to everyone who worked on this.
I'm amazed at your work.

How about merging it with MLPOV? Is that a possiblity?

Harold

"MegaPOV Team" <meg### [at] megapovinetartnet> wrote in message
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>
> MegaPOV is a collection of unofficial extensions for the freeware
> raytracer POV-Ray.  It is maintained by a group of POV-Community
> members - the MegaPOV Team. It was rewritten for POV-Ray 3.5
> source code and it is now available at its new website:
>
> http://megapov.inetart.net/
>
> Go, download, read documentation, have fun.
>
> Let's start New Year with new quality! :-)
>
> MegaPOV Team

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The new features look exciting. I have never tried any of the scattered
patches for 3.5 as I have been waiting for the unified patch, MegaPOV.
It will be interesting to play with those.

-- 
#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -

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Btw, what happened to the post-processing effects? They were handy.

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#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -

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In article <3E11EA94.61D5B83A@gmx.de>,
 Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:

> > The "listed" pattern looks like the "solid" pattern from my old patch
> > tutorial and MegaPOV+. Frankly, I like my name better, "listed" gives no
> > impression of what the result is. 
> 
> 'solid' is also used for crackle solid so this might lead to confusion.

Minimal. It makes perfect sense to me...knowing what "solid" is, 
"crackle solid" is pretty obvious, and the same goes for the reverse. 
"listed" is extremely vague. "constant" would work, but I still prefer 
"solid".
The patch has my name on it, but I would never have chosen "listed", I 
think it's a terrible choice. Since the whole thing is redundant, I'd 
just remove it.


> Concerning the displace warp - i was planning to add a new function warp
> (as well as warp functions, i think those things have been discussed
> somewhere previously) and therefore voted for not including the displace
> warp but the others thought it would be good to add it for convenience.  

I would have voted for leaving it out. It will be less convenient coping 
with changes or replacements (and I have those in mind).


> Concerning glows: warps and transformations are supported.  A new glow
> patch - sounds good, give it a few days rest but i am pretty sure we can
> arrange something.  It should be obvious that none of the MegaPOV features
> will stay as it is forever and features can also vanish again when there
> is a new better solution. So don't worry too much about possibly outdated
> functions. 

But in the past, MegaPOV was much more than a patch version, more people 
used it than the official version. Those features could at least have 
been marked "not final" in the documentation.

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I have had this situation with the regular POV-Ray 3.5 some time ago. We
came to the conclusion it had something to do with Einstein's e=mcc  :-)

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MegaPOV Team wrote:
> MegaPOV is a collection of unofficial extensions for the freeware
> raytracer POV-Ray.  It is maintained by a group of POV-Community
> members - the MegaPOV Team. It was rewritten for POV-Ray 3.5
> source code and it is now available at its new website:
>
> http://megapov.inetart.net/
>
> Go, download, read documentation, have fun.
>
> Let's start New Year with new quality! :-)
>
> MegaPOV Team

A big "bravo" to the MegaPOV Team.
I've especialy loved the chapters in the documentation explaining POV
internal structure and a starter to make POV patches. I strongly believe
that this kind of documentation should get in an hypothetical "POV
programming guidelines" document in the forthcoming POV 4.0 project.

--
Alessandro Falappa
web: http://www.falappa.net/alessandro

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Woohoo!
Chistmas one week late!

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