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30 Jul 2024 16:16:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Elliptical toroids--another take  
From: Warp
Date: 21 Oct 2008 13:38:49
Message: <48fe13a8@news.povray.org>
Nicolas George <nicolas$george@salle-s.org> wrote:
> This equation looks pretty much like a eighth order polynomial. If you have
> enough courage, you can expand it and find the 165 parameters needed for the
> poly primitive, this would probably be faster than isosurface, and there
> would be no need for the max_gradient.

  If I remember correctly, the poly primitive supports up to 7th order
polynomials, so it would not be possible, unfortunately.

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                                                          - Warp


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