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From: Warp
Date: 26 Jul 2012 09:31:45
Message: <501146c1@news.povray.org>
Chaanakya <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I was trying to create half of a hollow cylinder (both ends open).  I tried
> using CSG with an intersection, and that gave me a half a hollow cylinder, but
> I'd like to not have a plane on the end.  That is, I'd like essentially a curved
> plane (the side of the cylinder without the endcaps).  Is there some
> transformation I could use on, for example, a box to achieve this?

Just make a difference of the cylinder and another cylinder with a slightly
smaller radius and which is a bit longer ther the first cylinder.


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