Re: Making sense of Directive[ ]
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- Subject: [mg75864] Re: Making sense of Directive[ ]
- From: "Forex Ample" <Forex at Ample.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 03:06:31 -0400 (EDT)
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Thanks. Strange that this usage is not explained in the documentation... "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote in message news:f21eev$6ht$1 at smc.vnet.net... > Hi, > > if you Export[] the 3d object many systems need color and material > properties in a sequence of statements before any drawing starts, > and it is hard to collect the directives form the arbitary order in > Mathematica into the clean order that say PovRay or Maya like. > > The Directive[] collect all directrives that apply to the primitives > and make the Export[] easyer. > > Regards > Jens > > Forex Ample wrote: >> I stumbled upon the new Directive[ ] function, used to group Graphics >> directives into one compound directive. However, I fail to see what it is >> good for. In every example in the documentation, replacing Directive with >> List seems to produce the exact same results. Anybody got a clue? >> >> Greetz, Naz >> >> >> >