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Slices

Posted on 30 December, 2011 by bgimeno

Possibly one of the first macros that were written for Pov-Ray when  the conditional statements were implemented, although I don’t know who was the first to devise it or write it. My CAT macro for scanning of objects is based on the idea that was used here.  

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Color Wheel

Posted on 27 December, 2011 by bgimeno

This macro was originally published in the POV-Ray user forum  in August 2011 and is a simple modification of the macro included in “colors.inc” to switch from RGB to HSV. This macro returns the pigment located at ”A” degrees of the input pigment into the color wheel. It is valid to calculate complementary colors. triads … Continue reading →

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Trigonometry in Pov-Ray

Posted on 24 December, 2011 by bgimeno

One of my worst vices in math has always been having to rethink and rewrite the same formulas in different scenes for simple math calculations in POV-Ray. See here, a simple macro to calculate angles, sides and areas of regular polygons.  

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