POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Lathe prism? : Re: Lathe prism? Server Time
10 Aug 2024 13:26:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Lathe prism?  
From: Chris Colefax
Date: 14 Dec 1999 21:48:55
Message: <38570197@news.povray.org>
Jon S. Berndt <jsb### [at] hal-pcorg> wrote:
> I would like to define a curve which I can sweep out around the y-axis,
> almost like a lathe object. However, I'd also like to change the curve at
> various angles about the Y-axis. I don't believe this capability currently
> exists. Might this be a future capability, or does a patch add this?

Perhaps Daniele Varrazzo's Striscia can help
(http://members.xoom.com/dvarrazzo) with this sort of extrusion modelling?
Otherwise bicubic patches offer the advantage of small file sizes and high
quality, whether hand coded or created using sPatch/Moray, etc.


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