"Mueen Nawaz" <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote in message 
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> Not a beginner to POV-Ray (first experience in 1995).

Gee, that's just one year less than me. Give or take several months, maybe. 
Been such a long time.

> I'm working on making a cake in POV-Ray. For the "base" of the cake,
> I'm using a simple superquadric ellipsoid (basically a cylinder with
> slightly rounded edges). Now I want to put the icing.

You're CSG of carved cylinders would probably work okay if seen from a 
distance away.

You might want to try using a blob, cobbled together using #while loop and 
randomized positions and scales.

I'd type one up here as an example to explain better but I'm only stopping 
in real quick here. Hopefully you know of these things already anyway. 
Negative strength component parts could be useful, too. I'd use a cylinder 
component (sorry, I still call the blob pieces this name even though that 
changed long ago) for the main icing cover then create indentations using 
negative parts, and finally add dripping sides with positive strength 
spheres (scaled/rotated appropriately).

Bob Hughes

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