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7 May 2024 08:51:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: True catenary  
From: Alain
Date: 1 Aug 2005 19:48:24
Message: <42eeb4c8$1@news.povray.org>
Ross nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2005-08-01 12:00:

> 
> Cool cool. I think about this occasionally, probably everytime i see a
> cosh()  for some reason. This is the same curve that would describe wires
> between telephone poles, right?
> 
> anyway, neat work. i await the realistic glass render although the fake
> glass looked pretty too :)
> 
> 
> 
This is indeed the curve of any whire, string, rope or chain suspended between two
points. This 
assuming that the whire is not to stiff relative to it's weith and length.

Alain


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