POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : object oriented features : Re: object oriented features Server Time
28 Jul 2024 16:27:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: object oriented features  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 20 Aug 2000 23:54:19
Message: <slrn8q1amj.oo.ron.parker@fwi.com>
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:15:57 +0200, Mikael Carneholm wrote:
>Warp wrote:
>
>>   What would be the advantage of transforming subobjects after the CSG has
>> been declared?
>>
>
>I think the main advantage of OO (from my point of view) would be _reading_
>the location/rotation/scale etc. of objects, instead of (as in the example):
>setting the values. 

I don't understand this mindset.  If you need to know what transformations
have been applied to object foo at some point in the future, keep track of
what transformations you've applied.  What's so hard about that?

-- 
Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.


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