Christoph Hormann wrote:
>> Has anyone been following the developments of supershapes that
>> appeared in a brief article in Nature as little while ago? Well
>> 3D versions can be made and there are some examples here
>>     http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/surfaces/supershape3d/
>> along with a PovRay macro.
> 
> Interesting, do you know if these shapes can be converted in an implicit
> form, at least in some special cases?
> 
> This would make it easier to render them in POV-Ray without generating a
> mesh.
> 
What about adding the supershape as a built-in POVRay function for 
isosurface? (like f_sphere, etc.)
That would at least eliminate function evaluation time. 

Wolfgang

Post a reply to this message