POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Partial sweeping around an axis : Re: Partial sweeping around an axis Server Time
5 Aug 2024 04:23:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Partial sweeping around an axis  
From: Mark M Wilson
Date: 4 Dec 2002 14:10:50
Message: <3DEE531E.4060409@att.net>
It seems like it _should_ be possible, considering how verbally easy the 
idea is to convey -- not that there's necessarily a correlation between 
the way an idea is expressed in words rather than equations! :-)

Maybe a feature for a future version?

--Mark


Christopher James Huff wrote:

> In article <3DE### [at] attnet>, Mark M Wilson <mrm### [at] attnet> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Is there a way with SOR and lathe objects to limit the sweep to an arc 
>>of x degrees, where 0 < x < 360 ? -- WITHOUT differencing of any kind?
>>
> 
> Well, you could use intersections instead...not what you want, I think. 
> There is no way to do that without some kind of CSG or clipped_by.
> 
>


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