POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Polygon Sweeps : Re: Polygon Sweeps Server Time
30 Jul 2024 14:25:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Polygon Sweeps  
From: Christopher James Huff
Date: 23 Feb 2004 21:35:41
Message: <cjameshuff-47EE6F.21362623022004@news.povray.org>
In article <403a4c62@news.povray.org>,
 "bongotastic" <cbl### [at] csdalca> wrote:

>     Is there a way to do simple polygon/spline sweep rather than sphere
> sweep? By this, I mean sweeping a 2D object along a 3D spline. I feel like
> it should be there but I did not see this in the docs.

There is no built in primitive that does this. However, you can do it by 
using the scripting language to build an appropriate mesh, and someone 
may have done an include file for this already.

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Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
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