POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Splines, actually demonstrated: Re: Splines, actually demonstrated

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From: Greg M Johnson
Date: 19 Jan 2004 23:02:16
Message: <400ca848$1@news.povray.org>

Wild.  I'm looking for a good approximation of octopus tenacle.  I was
hoping I could just throw out a couple of random points in space and some
kind of spline would come along and make a line in the natural shape of an
(uninjured) octopus's tenacle.

"ABX" <abx### [at] abxartpl> wrote in message
news:jl4n001ogj0klas65mn2s2u14dcmbv4561@4ax.com...
>
> You could be interested in akima- , tcb- or x-splines. I have patched
POV-Ray
> for such splines and googling you can find math behind them.
>
> tcb_spline
> http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/31196/
>
> akima_spline
> http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/31227/

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