in news:web.4c9de1639b1fb69134d207310@news.povray.org gregjohn wrote:

> ingo, thanks for thinking this through with me.  First of all upon
> looking at your google code site (but not yet d/ling any files) I'm
> wondering which include or routine it would be. 

Greg, it's been a while since I wrote and used the thing, so I had to look 
for my self. The multi spline mesh seems the best candidate to create one 
half of the trousers. Define the green and red splines in the attached 
image. The mesh package is fully documented and has examples.


> 
> I've got a macro where I modified Mike's code to take any arbitrary
> sectioning shape-- superellipsoid, cube, squashed cylinder-- instead
> of a circle, as it creates the mesh along the backbone. 

Writing a macro for Lofting / extruding a pair of trousers ie splitting a 
path (backbone) to go in different dirction isn't easy.

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