POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : curve with thickness : Re: curve with thickness Server Time
4 Aug 2024 12:13:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: curve with thickness  
From: Micha Riser
Date: 17 May 2003 17:04:09
Message: <3ec6a3c9@news.povray.org>
Kasper Peeters wrote:

> I want to 'plot' a curve (for which I know the parametric expression,
> i.e. the three coordinates as a function of a single parameter) and
> give it some thickness (like a thick rope). So I'm looking for
> something like sphere_sweep, but with the curved described by my
> parametric expression, not by a spline.
> 
Why don't you evaluate your function at regular points (regarding to the
single parameter) and feed that to the sphere_sweep? 

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