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On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:52:04 -0800, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbell net> wrote:
>Anthony Bennett wrote:
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>> Attention POV-Team
>>
>> I found a cool primitive that HAS got to be included in POV-Ray now! It
>> is very cool!!!
>> (Check out the upper folder [modelling], it has good stuff too).
>>
>> http://www.mhri.edu.au/~pdb/modelling/supertoroid/
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>I guess the equivelant would be a superellipsoid like object that takes
>the form of a torus. I see possiblities for this shape. If not an official
>primitive addition one of the patchs might pick it up. Nice of them to
>provide the C code for it.
Unfortunately, it doesn't provide what we really need: the equations for
the intersection of one of these beasts with a line. 'Tis an interesting
object, though, and I've bookmarked it for further investigation.
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