POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.animations : 3D Splines : Re: 3D Splines Server Time
28 Jul 2024 14:20:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 3D Splines  
From: Chris Huff
Date: 28 Dec 1999 18:15:18
Message: <chrishuff_99-93570A.18161028121999@news.povray.org>
In article <38693b3b@news.povray.org>, <msk### [at] msncom> wrote:

> Can someone tell me how to create a 3D (cubic) spline from a list of 
> points in it?  Specificaly, I want to be able to animate the
> camera's position in a smooth manner by giving a list of points that it 
> should travel through in order.  Points that are closer
> together should make it travel more slowly.  Does my question even make 
> sense?  If anyone can help here, thanks in advance.

I think there is a Colfax include file which does splines, but the 
easiest way would probably be to use one of the spline patches, which 
are included in MegaPOV.
Here is the URL for MegaPOV:
http://nathan.kopp.com/patched.htm
I don't know the URL for Colfax's include files, but I am sure Ken does. 
:-)

-- 
Chris Huff
e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/


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