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2 May 2024 15:49:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Bezier-patch torus  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 20 Sep 2018 03:00:43
Message: <5ba3459b$1@news.povray.org>
On 20-9-2018 0:16, Bald Eagle wrote:
> Alain <kua### [at] videotronca> wrote:
>> Le 18-09-18 à 15:11, Bald Eagle a écrit :
>>
>>> So - here's a coil wrapping around a torus 5 times.   Super easy as a sphere
>>> weep and parametric or isosurface or polynomial...   but if the torus is
>>> deformed...
>>>
>> 5 times around ? Then, why to I count 12 rotations ?
> 
> We use common core principles to guess at the floating-point values, and when
> you do that, 5 = 12 for sufficiently large values of 5.
> 
> 
> No really, I started off with 5, and decided it looked better with 12.
> 
> It was a counting test - you passed!   :D
> 

I still see 5... :-0

-- 
Thomas


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