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2 May 2024 12:33:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Smoothing bicubic_patchs. A pain.  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 19 Aug 2018 02:38:45
Message: <5b791075@news.povray.org>
On 18-8-2018 23:14, Bald Eagle wrote:
> So, I played with some parametric Bezier splines, and that went -- horribly.
> :D
> 
> But it hinted at the source of the problem - the interpolated control points are
> control points - NOT on the surface of the patch - so a spline based on those
> doesn't touch the surface.
> 
> I got rid of the intermediate sweeps and all is well.
> 
> Ricky's off the hook.
> Good job.
> 
> :)
> 

Well done, sir! Well done!

Last night, I dreamed about Klein Bottles. That would be a hellish job 
to model I guess. ;-)

-- 
Thomas


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