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7 Aug 2024 15:17:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Vexing Vector Problem  
From: Ben Chambers
Date: 30 Aug 2001 19:14:43
Message: <3b8ec8e3@news.povray.org>
"Dave Dunn" <poi### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
news:3B8E6B33.D47BC901@aol.com...
> There is probably somehting simple that I am missing (besides a brain)
> but I am at a loss. I am trying to be able to define a line between two
> vectors, as with a cylinder or cone definition (lets say <1,2,3> to
> <3,4,5>). Now, I want to use that line as an axis, as if it were, say Y,
> (<0,-2,0>,<0,2,0> for example), and offset a parallel line from this set
> of vectors. (As in <2,-2,0>,<2,2,0>) and create a while loop that
> generates a ring of lines around the original axis. The application I
> have in mind will not allow creating the figure at the Origin and
> rotating into place. Any help would be appreciated.

What application are you using?  If it exports to POV files, then do this,
and then edit the file to rotate it into place by hand.

...Chambers


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