[PD] Disabling a [gemhead] by default (Re: Writing texture to different sides of cube in GEM)

[cyrille henry]

Claude Heiland-Allen a écrit :
> PSPunch wrote:
>> I thought the dgemhead and repeat methods were just a matter of 
>> preference. If one is trendy and the other out dated, I guess I can just 
>> drop the one said to be less efficient.
> 
> as far as I understand it, there are now 3 methods:
> 
> 1: double [gemhead]
> 2: [repeat]
> 3: [until] with [gemlist]
2 and 3 is the same "trick". it used to be made with repeat, but since the gemlist object you can now make it external free.


> 
> 1 requires only Gem, but is least efficient
> 2 requires Gem and zexy, but is most efficient
> 3 requires only Gem, but Gem newer than a certain version
> 3 is very close to 2 in efficiency
> 
> They may also have different behaviour, I think (1) implies a built-in 
> [separator] which may or may not be what you want?

yes, the repeat trick have an optional separator, so it's more flexible and can be used for iterative process like LSystem.

cyrille

> 
> Please correct this if I'm wrong!
> 
> 
> Claude
> 
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