POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Creating a rope : Re: Creating a rope Server Time
9 Aug 2024 19:39:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Creating a rope  
From: Chris Colefax
Date: 22 May 2000 19:19:39
Message: <3929c08b@news.povray.org>
DustBuster <dus### [at] planetaccesscom> wrote:
> I need a rope in one of my scenes. To make it look like a rope, it needs a
> few bends here and there. I could of course paste torus-pieces together
but
> that's gonna take six years, eight days and three hours. Is there a better
> way to do it?

Perhaps my Spline Macro System would be useful in this case:

   http://www.geocities.com/ccolefax/spline

This will allow you to define the path of the rope (bends and all) using a
list of points.  Then you can link these points with torus sections, blobs,
or rope objects - see the older Spline Include File and Link Include File
for ideas in this department:

   http://www.geocities.com/ccolefax/otherincludes.html


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