POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.text.scene-files : 3D Text with Sphere_sweeps : Re: 3D Text with Sphere_sweeps Server Time
25 Apr 2024 23:06:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 3D Text with Sphere_sweeps  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 20 Jun 2022 19:40:00
Message: <web.62b104eb18b1901c1f9dae3025979125@news.povray.org>
"Dave Blandston" <IsN### [at] protonmailch> wrote:
> Here's a question for Bald Eagle - would your SmoothMinFunction code work on
> this object? I added a picture to the povray.binaries.images thread highlighting
> some of the areas where sphere_sweeps are unioned together where your
> SmoothMinFunction would dramatically improve the appearance if it could be
> applied. I looked at the SmoothMinFunction code and I must admit, the math is
> way beyond my abilities.

It should work just fine so long as the pieces that you want to smooth between
are separate parts.

You really don't need to understand any of the math - you just plug in the
objects to the function - just like macro arguments.


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