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From: Ph Gibone
Date: 19 Apr 1999 04:33:44
Message: <371adc58.0@news.povray.org>
> I would certainly be interested in taking a look at it. Send it to
>me when you have the time. Any kind of instructions you may have for
>it's use would be appreciated. You did not mention if it was a dos or
>windows program. If it is a windows program I can probably struggle
>through with a simple explanation on how to use it. If it is a dos
>command line program then a list of command line paramters plus a
>command line example would be useful to have.


WIndow 32 bits.


>  One question I have is how you handle infinite objects with your
>program. Several of the examples in the shapesq.inc file are infinite
>in one plane. If you make a mesh for one of these types the program
>would not stop making triangles for as long as hard drive would have
>room to hold them. Do you automaticaly clip the object at some boundry
>or did you simply make it refuse to handle shapes of this type ?


It is a program to render parametrized functions, not implicit ones so, you
have to choose the range of the 2 parameters, and so the program knows where
to stop !

I will write a little help and send it to you wwith the program in a few
days (everything written in french on the screen).


Philippe

PS : I just tried the triaxial tritorus and I wonder if there is an error in
you equation, I also tried the tear drop : great ! is it a parametrized
equation of the "well known" piriform or someting else ?


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