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2 May 2024 03:36:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: v3.8b2. height_field input values at 0.0 not clean.  
From: Tor Olav Kristensen
Date: 18 Feb 2023 19:40:00
Message: <web.63f16f711428d28bd7e7326789db30a9@news.povray.org>
"Tor Olav Kristensen" <tor### [at] TOBEREMOVEDgmailcom> wrote:
> William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> >...
> > I used the 4 term because I think it reads a little cleaner when setting
> > up a boolean test in the first term which can only return a zero or one
> > - the negative action is never used as Bill W said.
>
> I agree..
>
>
> > Aside: You can use the 3 term select depending upon a boolean result in
> > the first term test by doing something like:
> >
> > select(1-(2*((x<0.0) | (x>1.0))), 0, 1)
> >...
>
> How about just this:
>
> select(
>     -((x < 0.0) | (1.0 < x)),
>     0,
>     1
> )
>
> - or this:
>
> select(
>     -((0.0 <= x) & (x <= 1.0)),
>     1,
>     0
> )

But for that check select() isn't needed.
This should be sufficient:

((0.0 <= x) & (x <= 1.0))


--
Tor Olav
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