hi,

"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> "jr" <cre### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > I so agree, everything ought to have "sensible defaults" for all but location
> > (and perhaps size).
>
> (?)
> Well, considering the troubles people go through, 30 years in, I would say that
> a default location at the origin not only makes sense, but is desirable.
> [I always pause when I realize that torus {} doesn't take a vector location like
> sphere{}, and I have to translate it afterwards, and I still fail to provide a
> radius for cylinder when writing one from scratch.]
>
> Rotate and scale, when not at the origin, really mess with people's heads.

yes.  the "all but location" was just (habitual ?) personal perspective.


> (Which reminds me, I ought to write macros like Turn () and Resize () to
> translate objects to the origin, perform the inbuilt operation, and translate
> back to original location.  Macro names are just off the top of my head)
>
> Default sizes ought to be in reference to the unit cell, unless there's some
> specific reason to do otherwise.  Text {} defaults to 1. Image_map,
> height_field, and maybe others default to 1x1, df3 and maybe others default to
> the unit cube....
>
> I think that one of the basic themes for 4.0 ought to be consistency.
> In size, in uv-mapping vectors, in syntax, and whatever else we can manage.


regards, jr.

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