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30 Jul 2024 04:16:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Prism with integrated arcs  
From: Daniel Hulme
Date: 10 Oct 2004 09:41:56
Message: <20041010144156.1920093c@dh286.pem.cam.ac.uk>
> How can I create a prism with 'arcs'-sides?
I would suggest you read section 2.3.1 of the POV-Ray Documentation
which covers spline-based shapes, including splines in prisms. You
probably want to use a quadratic spline, if I have understood you
correctly. When you say an "arc", do you really mean an arc, which is
the shape of part of the circumference of a circle, or do you mean a
general curve? If it is an arc, then I think unioning a few cylinders
together would work very well if you can cope with the maths. If it is a
general curve, then I would recommend using a prism with a cubic spline.

Hope this helped,
Daniel

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