Hi,

You know, both for this and the  the other thread -BrickArch???-a few days
back, you could also go in for the Striscia macros (see 'Round edges_&
Brick
arch_& Striscia' in p.b.i. for an example) available at
http://members.xoom.com/dvarrazo/ .
That's, IMHO, a highly underrated macro. Not only can you loft (your round
edged sections) but it also has other features such as making the texture
follow the path of your 'loft', varying the scale of the section at various
points along the path etc.Also, if using Megapov's 'solid mesh' feature you
can do csg's withit. Do try it; I've been playing with it on & off for the
last month, & have been really impressed.
The only problem is it's numerous 'declarations'; but you could probably
find a way around this if you are more intelligent (very likely judging
from the no. of messages I couldn't understand;-))
Hope this helps.
Bye,

-Anoop

Nekar Xenos wrote in message <3b08ae99@news.povray.org>...
>Can I please have this macro?
>
>Thanks
>
>Nekar
>
>--
>#local N=<-20,40,100>;#local K=<20,-40,100>;#local
R=seed(0);blob{#while((K-N).
>x>0)#local X=N;#local N=N+<rand(R),rand(R),1>/3;#local
N=(vlength(N-K)<vlength(
>X-K)?N:2*X-N);sphere{<N.y,-N.x,N.z>,1,1 scale .02}sphere{N,1,1
scale.02}sphere{
><-N.x-40,N.y,N.z>1,1 scale.01}sphere{<N.x+40,-N.y,N.z>1,1 scale.01 }#end
>pigment{rgbt 1}interior{media{emission <2,4,5>*5}}hollow}// Nekar Xenos
>"Chris Huff" <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in message
>news:3b053411@news.povray.org...
>> Nekar Xenos <j-p### [at] citywalkcoza> wrote:
>>
>> > Does anyone have a macro that could take the co-ordinates of all the
>> > points in an object and replace them with blobs?
>>
>> I've done something like this before...I just used eval_pattern with
>> the object pattern to determine if a point was inside the object, and
>> if so, placed a blob component at that point.
>>
>>
>> > I've figured that would be quite a good way of making rounded
>> > edges. CSG's would probably be a problem, unless there was a macro
>> > that could convert CSG's (or anything else) to polygons.
>>
>> It worked fairly well for rounded text, but if you want just slight
>> rounding of edges, you will require a huge number of blob components
>> to get smooth results, and the rendering will be quite slow. A better
>> bet would be to use macros to produce various primitive shapes, such
>> as rounded boxes, cylinders, etc...
>> CSG is no problem, though.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Christopher James Huff - chr### [at] maccom
>> Home Page: http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
>> POV-Ray TAG e-mail: chr### [at] povrayorg
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>
>

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