POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Geometric puzzle : Re: Geometric puzzle Server Time
8 Oct 2024 20:25:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Geometric puzzle  
From: Invisible
Date: 16 Dec 2009 08:36:48
Message: <4b28e270$1@news.povray.org>
>> Look at the belt. It's circular. Ever tried drawing a circle using 
>> pencil and paper? (Hint: It's physically impossible.)
> 
> "Add -> Circle" and work from there?

Except that, as I mentioned, it's not perfectly circular.

>> And that's just making the outline; next you have to somehow model the 
>> height of the belt,
> 
> "Edit -> Extrude" until it looks about the right height?
> 
>> not to mention its thickness.
> 
> "Edit -> Extrude" until it looks about the right thickness?

And the tapered end? The beveled edges? The slight deformations along 
the Y-axis? (Also, is it just me, or does the buckle self-intersect?)

The belt also presumably has to be curved in *the exact same way* as the 
waistline it's supposed to fit around - which is also impossible.

And don't even get me started on the shoes...

>> Impossibility upon impossibility.
> 
> If it's impossible how come a relatively novice Blender user can do what 
> you just described in under 30 seconds?

You drew this in 30 seconds?


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