POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Round_Box with multiple Radii : Re: Round_Box with multiple Radii Server Time
1 Aug 2024 14:32:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Round_Box with multiple Radii  
From: Warp
Date: 31 Aug 2005 00:46:12
Message: <43153613@news.povray.org>
Rick Measham <rickm*at%isite.net.au> wrote:
> I want to create a Round Box, but be able to specify Radii for each 
> corner (or at least for more than a universal setting). I figure this 
> will be an ISO Surface or a mesh (hopefully an ISO surface so it can 
> easily be called in a macro..)

  What makes an isosurface more easily callable in a macro than a mesh?

> I was thinking I could do it with CSG, but then realised it's not 
> possible as the 'sphere's in the corners aren't spheres -- not even 
> scaled spheres.

  The problem is not that the corners would not be spherical (I don't
understand why they couldn't be). The problem is that if each corner
has a sphere of different radius, the sides of the box become non-planar.

-- 

                                                          - Warp


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