Hi

I have made wings of hand coded bicubic patches and once I got the hang of
it it wasn't too slow.

But you can make most things using simple primitives and csg.

Have a look at the IRTC entries and the code submitted with them you can
learn a huge amount from that.

These newsgroups are also a wonderful source of ideas, tips and info.

Finally, try SPatch, Uncle Ken will give you the URL, mind you I'm not sure
if it'll work on Linux.

Mick

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Bob Crispen <cri### [at] hiwaaynet> wrote in message
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> Nieminen Juha wrote:
>
> >   I think that you should forget bicubic patches for now and concentrate
> > on the other primitives. Bicubic patches are not intended to be created
> > by hand (and I don't know of anyone who is able to do it).
>
> I don't even know anybody who's able to make non-trivial
> meshes with smooth_triangles.  However, while it's really
> difficult for people to build bicubic patches and smooth_
> triangles, it's really easy for modelers to make them, while
> it's really hard for modelers to generate some of the other
> primitives (at least to do it well).
>
> Stick with the things that are easy for people.  There's
> *plenty* of them in POVRay.
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