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16 Apr 2024 02:45:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Some v38 torus vs f_torus() information.  
From: William F Pokorny
Date: 2 May 2020 07:30:38
Message: <5ead59de$1@news.povray.org>
On 5/1/20 12:41 AM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> On 2020-04-30 2:15 PM (-4), Bald Eagle wrote:
>>
>> Any ideas about Cousin Ricky's "elliptical torus"?
>> That could mean any of 3 or 4 different things to me, and searching 
>> yielded a
>> ton of different options.
> 
> My requirements are specific:






> 
> The first three requirements are necessary to fit in with the theme of 

> isosurface blobbing--and are the reason that simply scaling f_torus() is 
> insufficient.
> 
> Others may have different requirements.
> 
>> Speculating here:
>> Perhaps it might be best to treat all tori as Clifford tori and use 
>> the Dupin
>> cyclide code in the source - which would allow geometric inversion?
>> But then again the one-size fits all option might not be very 
>> efficient...?
> 



Ideas...

Not off the top of my head. I'll keep the question in mind, but I've got 
significant todo list.

Bill


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