On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:39:40 +1000, Chris Colefax wrote:
>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.

As well as the advantage of being intuitive to specify parameters for by hand,
if you use bezier splines for the curves that define the object.

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