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From: Jellby
Date: 4 Jan 2004 06:24:05
Message: <3ff7f7d4@news.povray.org>
Among other thigs, Christoph Hormann wrote:

> These all look very interesting, i wonder if this could be extended to a
> system to design shapes with smooth transits, with a few elements like
> this you could build a rounded version of any CSG made of axis-aligned
> boxes.

Indeed, interesting...

Could you extend the macros to automatically "patch" parametric shapes or 
isosurfaces (Something like Ingo's MMMM)?

-- 
light_source{9+9*x,1}camera{orthographic look_at(1-y)/4angle 30location
9/4-z*4}light_source{-9*z,1}union{box{.9-z.1+x clipped_by{plane{2+y-4*x
0}}}box{z-y-.1.1+z}box{-.1.1+x}box{.1z-.1}pigment{rgb<.8.2,1>}}//Jellby


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