I'm using pov to do some mechanical planning for a project.
It's two towers of identical capacitors and spark gaps, fed with a ladder of
resistors.

When the spark gaps fire, they change the capacitor connections from
parallel to series, and in this case, multiply the voltage from 10,000V to
100,000V on each tower.  The towers will be set opposite, so that one goes
from +10kV to +100kV, and the other goes from -10kV to -100kV, making the
potential across the tops 200kV.

What I need now (other than some real textures) :) is a way to do some
realistic wires.
The wires connect the spark gaps (brass doorknobs) to the ends of the
capacitors.
On any given gap, the left knob connects to the left lower cap terminal, and
the right one connects to the right upper cap terminal, so that the spark
gaps can be thought of as being connected diagonally across the
capacitor/resistor ladder.

I'm not seeing how to make the wires since they need complex curves that I
can't easily define mathematically.



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