Nieminen Juha wrote in message <37ce25b1@news.povray.org>...
>Mr. Art <mr.### [at] gcinet> wrote:
>: Point taken. But is there someone out there that can point out the
>: places in the code to put the values a and b in something like
>: this?
>
>  It's not as easy as "putting the values a and b in this".
>  I have been calculating polynomials (man, I wish I got some mathematical
>program to help me; typing polynomials by hand is tedious) and it seems
>to be impossible.
>  If I'm correct, a perfect elliptical torus would require a 8th degree
>polynomial (a very simple explanation of this is that it's because the
torus
>is a 4th degree polynomial and you have to raise it to the power of 2).
>Povray can only handle polynomials up to the 7th degree.

Can the isosurface functions handle an 8th degree polynomial?

Mark

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