POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : Re: POV's splines : Re: POV's splines Server Time
28 Sep 2024 16:48:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV's splines  
From: Rune
Date: 17 May 2004 04:49:15
Message: <40a87c8b$1@news.povray.org>
ABX wrote:
> Rune wrote:
>> ABX wrote:
>>> As mentioned, you still can create lathe-like
>>> mesh from spline.
>>
>> Is there some macro for this purpose?
>
> http://members.home.nl/seedseven/#lathe
>
>> The sides of the prism are trivial
>> of course, but the caps not quite as trivial...
>
> It is even less trivial for all splines when
> written in C++

I think I must have been tired. In this whole thread only lathes and
sors have been mentioned, but in my head I was thinking prisms (which
are also based on splines). It is prisms that I think are non-trivial to
generate with a macro due to the end caps...

Rune
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