"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:

> Have I broken POV-Ray _*AGAIN*_???!

Nope, just me glossing over the fact that sum doesn't have a step value, because
its default is one.
Tired brain does not listen to very little inner voice pointing out exactly
that.

"The iteration variable is incremented by one for each step, but its initial and
final value may be any value"
https://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Function


So, what I needed to do was:

#declare NDist_cdf2 = function (N, mu, sigma) {sum (i, 0, N*100, NDist (i/100,
mu, sigma))}

So at present, a can take a pdf, get the cdf, and even transpose it to its
inverse function.  :)

Now to figure out how to properly weigh the sample points and I think I should
have a semi-workable / partial importance sampling algorithm.

Like ...  7 years after clipka wanted one.

I'm glad I wrote that equation graphing scene way back when, but I also think I
need to debug my axis-labeling code.

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