Forum: Poser Technical


Subject: Better documentation on the Math_Functions node?

odf opened this issue on Oct 19, 2024 ยท 14 posts


bagginsbill posted Mon, 21 October 2024 at 2:18 PM

One of the craziest things I ever noticed was when studying the bias(U, V), the pattern is completely symmetrical about the diagonal. I looked more deeply at the math and found you can swap the inputs and get the same results:

a ** (log(b) / log(.5))

(e ** log(a)) ** (log(b) / log(.5))

e ** (log(a) * log(b) / log(.5))

e ** (log(b) * log(a) / log(.5))

(e ** log(b)) ** (log(a) / log(.5))

b ** (log(a) / log(.5))

All of these expressions have the same value.

I used "log" above but I really meant "ln". Depends on whether you're an engineer or scientist or mathematician. 


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