POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : Simple flat curves : Re: Simple flat curves Server Time
2 Nov 2024 03:15:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Simple flat curves  
From: Ken
Date: 1 Apr 2000 15:51:05
Message: <38E6616F.4CEAD39B@pacbell.net>
Nigel Warner wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
>     I am trying to work out which of the various patches I need to do
> the following.
> 
>     I want to draw a curved line between two points varying the
> thickness
> of the line as I go as if the line was drawn with a flat nibbed pen;
> thinner at the
> ends and fatter in the middle. The object I want is a slur used to join
> two notes
> or above a musical phrase.

How about a totaly different approach. On my web page is a ttf file
available for download that is for creating musical scores. With this
file and the use of POV-Ray's ability to make 3D extruded text objects
from ttf's you need only choose the right character for your task.

Simple no ?

-- 
Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/


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