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  Re: Equal distribution along stretched circle circumference - how to do it?  
From: Jan Walzer
Date: 31 Mar 2001 05:40:32
Message: <3ac5b420@news.povray.org>
Oh yes ...
I remember there was something called "eliptic integrals" ....
They were those that are not that easy (if at all) analytically
integratable...

I just remembered, we did something this way for having an even
distribution along parametric curves ...

Then do it numerically ;)


--
background{rgb 1}camera{location<1,5,-2>look_at 0}#macro
m(a,b,i)#local d=(b-a)
/8;#local
e=vcross(d,y);#if(i)m(a-e,a+e+2*d,i-1)m(a+e,a+2*d-e,i-1)m(a+3*d-e,a+e
+3*d,i-1)m(a+3*d-e,a+5*d-e,i-1)m(a+6*d-e,a+e+6*d,i-1)m(a+8*d-e,a+e+8*d
,i-1)#else
cylinder{a,b,vlength(d)/3 pigment{rgb 0}}#end#end m(-4*x,2*x,4) // Jan
Walzer


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