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3 Aug 2024 16:25:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Splines, actually demonstrated  
From: Chris Colefax
Date: 20 Jan 2004 18:37:35
Message: <400dbbbf@news.povray.org>
"Greg M. Johnson" <gregj;-)565### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> 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.

The Spline Macro File supports TCB splines, their subsets cardinal and
Catmull-Rom splines, and bezier splines (see
http://www.geocities.com/ccolefax/spline/ for images showing how these
work).


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