POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Springs in POV-RAY : Re: Springs in POV-RAY Server Time
11 Aug 2024 13:15:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Springs in POV-RAY  
From: mutewitness
Date: 10 Jul 1999 16:43:08
Message: <3787B200.5125F330@mpinet.net>
Matt Giwer wrote:

> mutewitness wrote:
> >
> > Ive been working on a project in POV-RAY lately and have come across a
> > bit of a bind trying to do barbed-wire... is there anyways to make a
> > torus a spring or any sort of spring like oject with triangles?  Any
> > help would be appreciated.
>
>         There is at least one barbed wire that comes with the example
> scenes. As for the torus, the raw math could do it but not in
> POV. But you can run macro objects around a center point like a
> do it yourself lathe. So with say a sphere going around a center
> in say x-y, increase the z value as it goes around.
>
> --
> <blink>-------please--don't-----------------</blink>
>
> http://www.giwersworld.org/artii/
> http://www.giwersworld.org/artiii/
>
> Finally up on 99/06/22 updated 06/30

Hmmm ive renedered all the example scene files and dont recall seeing barbed
wire... But i did manage to find that pov-ray object collection page with
some good straight barbed wire... now if i can only make some razor wire :)


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