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30 Jul 2024 10:17:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Extruding Along a Curve  
From: Mike Williams
Date: 30 May 2004 23:51:48
Message: <S8kIRDAVuquAFwqJ@econym.demon.co.uk>
Wasn't it Tim Soderstrom who wrote:
>
>Actually I may have spoken too soon :) Digging out some good 'ole Trig I was 
>able to figure out how to make a very nice looking curve using splines. The 
>problem is, I want to basically extrude a spline, or complex CSG object (which 
>serve as the rails on the track) along a splined path assuring that it does not 
>distort along the curve. The examples from the link squashed the isosurface as 
>it moved along.

The files you want from that page are the ones that generate a mesh2,
not an isosurface. In the download file it's "SweepSpline01.pov" and
"SweepSpline.inc".

I never did manage to work out how to do that with isosurfaces.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure


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