POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Geometric puzzle : Re: Geometric puzzle Server Time
8 Oct 2024 18:19:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Geometric puzzle  
From: Vincent Le Chevalier
Date: 16 Dec 2009 07:57:00
Message: <4b28d91c@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> Look at the belt. It's circular. Ever tried drawing a circle using 
> pencil and paper? (Hint: It's physically impossible.) Sure, you can move 
> the verticies around after you've drawn them. But it would still be 
> hopelessly hard to arrange 80 points into a near-perfect curve like 
> that. And that's just making the outline; next you have to somehow model 
> the height of the belt, not to mention its thickness. Impossibility upon 
> impossibility.

I like how you try to demonstrate how something we see a picture of is 
in fact impossible to do :-)

-- 
Vincent


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