"Mike Williams" <nos### [at] econymdemoncouk> wrote in message
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> Wasn't it Mueen Nawaz who wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >       Not a beginner to POV-Ray (first experience in 1995).
> >
> >       Not sure I can call myself a beginner by experience, but I surely am a
> >beginner by virtue of ability. To confuse matters further, I've posted
> >in the advanced newsgroup...
> >
> >       I'm sure these have simple answers, but my brain gave up.
> >
> >       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. I just want some
> >material that sort of wraps around the top of the base, and extends a
> >little bit down the sides, but with quite a bit of variation in how far
> >it extends down.
>
> My approach would be to create an isosurface that had a similar shape to
> the part of the object that I was trying to cover, and then add some
> noise to it.
>
> I've posted the resulting image in povray.binaries.images
>
> -- 
> Mike Williams
> Gentleman of Leisure

Thats a fine looking cake! I hope you'll post a recipe (source) over in
p.b.s-f or add something similar in your fine tutorial pages.
--
Jim Buddenhagen
http://home.earthlink.net/~jbuddenh/

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