Simon Lemieux <Rei### [at] sympaticoca> wrote:
> PS: does the 3.5 has the isofunctions?

  What are isofunctions?

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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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>   What are isofunctions?

Frankly, I have no idea... yet...!

But I shall discover soon!

-- 
    "Neuromancer," the boy said.  "The lane to the land of the 
dead.  Where you are, my friend.  I call up the dead.  But no,
my friend, I am the dead, and their land."    (William Gibson)
--  Simon Lemieux  (Rei### [at] Sympaticoca)

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Simon Lemieux <Rei### [at] sympaticoca> wrote:
>>   What are isofunctions?

> Frankly, I have no idea... yet...!

> But I shall discover soon!

  I know functions and isosurfaces, but I don't know what are isofunctions.

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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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"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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>
>   I know functions and isosurfaces, but I don't know what are
isofunctions.
>

Don't worry about it - they're for advanced users.

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Tom Melly <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote:
>>   I know functions and isosurfaces, but I don't know what are
> isofunctions.

> Don't worry about it - they're for advanced users.

  Could you explain it to a newuser like me?-)

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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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Warp wrote:
> 
> Tom Melly <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote:
> >>   I know functions and isosurfaces, but I don't know what are
> > isofunctions.
> 
> > Don't worry about it - they're for advanced users.
> 
>   Could you explain it to a newuser like me?-)

I doubt that's possible...

-- 
Ken Tyler

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On 25 May 2002 16:31:53 -0400, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> > >   I know functions and isosurfaces, but I don't know what are
> > isofunctions.
>
> > Don't worry about it - they're for advanced users.
>
>  Could you explain it to a newuser like me?-)

They must be functions after standarization :-)

ABX

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> >>   What are isofunctions?
> 
> > Frankly, I have no idea... yet...!
> 
> > But I shall discover soon!
> 
>   I know functions and isosurfaces, but I don't know what are isofunctions.

Hehe, pardon, my newbieness or shall I say my
too-long-since-my-last-ray-traceness...  I did mix these two up, I was
talking about isosurfaces which seems to be the kind of abstract
mathematical objects made for me!

Thanks,
  Simon

-- 
    "Neuromancer," the boy said.  "The lane to the land of the 
dead.  Where you are, my friend.  I call up the dead.  But no,
my friend, I am the dead, and their land."    (William Gibson)
--  Simon Lemieux  (Rei### [at] Sympaticoca)

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Simon Lemieux <Rei### [at] sympaticoca> wrote:
>>   I know functions and isosurfaces, but I don't know what are isofunctions.

> Hehe, pardon, my newbieness or shall I say my
> too-long-since-my-last-ray-traceness...  I did mix these two up, I was
> talking about isosurfaces which seems to be the kind of abstract
> mathematical objects made for me!

  An isosurface is an equipotential surface, that is, it consists of all
the points in space where the value of the given function is a given constant
(usually, but not necessarily, 0).

  A similar entity is an isobar. Isobars are 2D lines in a geographic map.
The line consists of all the points where air pressure is the same (a given
constant value).

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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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On 25 May 2002 16:31:53 -0400, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

>  Could you explain it to a newuser like me?-)

Sure. They are functions that return the same value. It's just a geek
name for declaring a float constant, really.

Here's an example:

isofunction theAnswer(x,y,z) = 42;


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