POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Prism Problem : Re: Prism Problem Server Time
19 Apr 2024 10:49:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Prism Problem  
From: LanuHum
Date: 20 Apr 2016 10:00:01
Message: <web.57178a445460f9ce7a3e03fe0@news.povray.org>
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 19.04.2016 um 19:47 schrieb Le_Forgeron:

> >
> > It's only the first point of the curve which is special.
> >
> > If you expect the prism to have a concentration of points, do not choose that
region for the first point.
>
> What if it isn't known beforehand what points will coincide?
> What if there's some external tool generating the points, and the user
> of that tool isn't aware of this limitation?
>
> I'm sure we /can/ make the syntax safer in this respect, with reasonable
> effort, so I think we /should/ do that.

Really, in case of animation any point can repeat randomly.
The user can't foresee or count (to calculate).
And, it will give an error message.
Loop - a good solution.


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