Eric Brown nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 11/11/2006 10:40:
> I wish to make a "tube" which follows along a set of cartesian coordinates
> which I input:

> {x1,y1,z1},
> {x2,y2,z1},
> ....
> {xN,yN,zN}

> and the tube radius.

> In general, the "tube" does not obey a quadratic polynomial, but it could
> easily be represented by a cubic-spline.  I though about making a bunch of
> cylinders, but this might introduce texture that shows the granularity of
> my step size.

> Does anyone have a solution?

> Thanks!
> Eric


Using a collection of cylinders, it's best to put spheres at the junctions, they 
help to hide the angling.
A sphere_sweep can be a solution. Point format is <x,y,z>,Rad. Be wary that it 
tend to show some artefacts in some cases and can be slow for large sweeps, 
those showing large, broad curves. This is due of the often huge bounding box. 
In that case, splitting the sweep into several sub-sweeps in an union can 
greatly improve performances.

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Alain
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