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  Another kind of scaling or "growing"  
From: Jellby
Date: 15 Dec 2002 15:20:24
Message: <3dfce408@news.povray.org>
Hello,

Have you ever felt that the standard scaling is not what you need? I was 
thinking about that and it occurred to me that it could be interesting to 
be able to grow or shrink an object not relative to the origin (as with the 
standard scaling) but perpendicularly to its surface. Does this have any 
sense? It would be equivalent for some simple shapes: sphere, cube... but 
for others it would be like changing the threshold value (for blobs), or 
altering the minor radius (for tori)...

I know this is more than probably not easy (impossible?) to do, and maybe 
it's not interesting at all, but well, I lose nothing by writing it here :)

Regards

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