Dave VanHorn wrote:

> Lance Birch wrote in message <3614192f.0@news.povray.org>...
> >Random spheres of alternating colours???
>
> Tried that, it comes out looking like a patterned tube, rather than
> fabric stuffed into a tube.

  It's a bird ! It's a plane, It's Super Patch !
Bezier patches might get you there or you might try
a little csg action on a cylinder and rotate multiple
copies of it around inside the tube.
How about a cylinder smaller than the "stuff" tube that
has an image map of pleated house curtains.
    Or take your full size chute and use the Chris Colefax
object bender inc file and neatly fold it up until it fits
in the tube or ....

Ken Tyler

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