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23 Feb 2025 23:55:35 EST (-0500)
  Re: Updated yuqk tarballs for Unix/Linux. a5c25dda  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 10 Feb 2025 19:00:00
Message: <web.67aa92d49eb80dd1f9dae3025979125@news.povray.org>
William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:

> > What I'm wondering is if there's a (future) way to set the result of a function
> > like select () to NAN, i, or some other "orthogonal placeholder" that a
> > color_map would just "ignore" and maybe set to something like rgbft1.
>
> Interesting ideas as far as I understand what you want to do.
>
> The yuqk fork's pattern value wrapping is somewhat different / extended
> compared to POV-Ray - including some internal changes on the internal
> function / pattern map interface.
>
> We have some ability to 'jimmy map behavior' today in v3.8, but I think
> not quite what you are after.

So, I just tested NAN and inf out of curiosity, and it seems they both default
to zero in the color_map.

Bummer.  I suppose that's better than the render failing.


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