hi,

"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> I was wanting to work out the SOR segment equations, and found the existing
> documentation to be a bit confusing / incomplete.
> https://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:Surface_of_Revolution
> The notation is a bit confusing, and there's not enough information to lead me
> through the jumps in operations so that I can connect what's going on.
> I know there has been some recent effort to improve some of the documentation,
> and I think this page would be a good candidate for revision.
> If anyone has the knowledge or ability to work out how the curve for each
> segment gets interpolated, then a better written explanation and/or SDL
> calculating all the points along the entire SOR curve would be great.

having just read your follow-up, it seems that the interpolation "loose end"
needs to be sorted.  if then you can provide a (working) "worked example" and
(brief ;-)) explanation, we can update that part of the documentation.


regards, jr.

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