On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 22:46:28 -0000, Bjorn Jonsson wrote:
>And so on, I have written about 5-7 such utilities in recent weeks. I 
>use the results from them primarily in POV's union and difference 
>statements. Non-programmers can't create utilities like this (and 
>calculating something like this on e.g. a pocket calculator is extremely 
>tedious) so I'm wondering if I'm missing something, are utilities like 
>this available somewhere (if that is the case then *that's* what I've 
>missed ;-), are you using such utilities or is what I'm doing unusual in 
>some way (I don't think so) ?

Some utilities like this are available.  John VanSickle has a few in his
Thoroughly Useful Macros collection, there are others scattered throughout 
the newsgroups here, and there are others on various web pages around the
net.  There used to be a site, #MacroScope, that was a collection of such 
macros, but it is now defunct.  The macros from that site, and many more,
can be found at 

http://www.povray.org/links/POV-Ray_Include_Macro_and_Object_Files/Macro_Files/

My torus spline macro isn't linked from there, but I'm sure that's an oversight.
It's included in the #MacroScope file anyway, or available from the "other 
stuff" link below.

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