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  Re: Irregular cone scaling to bridge to curved edges?  
From: Warp
Date: 8 Oct 2004 10:04:50
Message: <41669e81@news.povray.org>
Dave! <orr### [at] no_spam_pleaseexcitecom> wrote:
> However, I sort of accidentally discovered that I could create the surface I
> needed more easily through a matrix transformation of a simple cylinder.

  Since you can't turn a cylinder into a conical shape where each end has
a different size with a matrix transformation, and since a transformed
cylinder is exactly what you wanted, your original description of the
problem was not very accurate... :P

-- 
#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -


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