Can anyone tell me how I would make a bending tube? I am looking into making
a power cord for a pov'ed soldering iron.

Thanks!

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On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 17:43:07 -0400, parasonic wrote:
>Can anyone tell me how I would make a bending tube? I am looking into making
>a power cord for a pov'ed soldering iron.

http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html 

Look for the torus spline include file at the bottom of the page.

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y pigment_map{[.5F pigment_map{[.3R][.3F color_map{[.15red 99][.15P]}rotate z*45
translate x]}]#local H=pigment{gradient y color_map{[.5P][.5R]}scale 1/3}[.5F
pigment_map{[.3R][.3H][.7H][.7R]}]}}}camera{location.5-3*z}//only my opinions

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thanks..works like a charm!!!

"parasonic" <par### [at] homecom> wrote in message
news:3b1ea3eb$1@news.povray.org...
> Can anyone tell me how I would make a bending tube? I am looking into
making
> a power cord for a pov'ed soldering iron.
>
> Thanks!
>
>

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parasonic <par### [at] homecom> wrote:
: thanks..works like a charm!!!

: "parasonic" <par### [at] homecom> wrote in message
: news:3b1ea3eb$1@news.povray.org...
:> Can anyone tell me how I would make a bending tube? I am looking into
: making
:> a power cord for a pov'ed soldering iron.
:>
:> Thanks!
:>
:>


  Sorry about preaching once more about correct news writing, but
some recapitulation might not be bad. And this special article has
several mistakes.
  I'll tell you the mistakes in the form of questions:

  1. If you were responding to Ron's article, why did you follow up to your
own original question instead of his answer? People will not know who
are you talking to if you are responding to your own article but talking
to someone else (specially if it's a longer thread).

  2. Why did you quote the (=your) original article although you are not
in any way responding to it? When you quote something it's because you
are writing response to that specific quote.

  3. Why did you write your text at the beginning of the article and left
a useless quote at the end? You are not responding to the quote and you are
not using it in any way for your text. Why are you wasting server space
and bandwidth for a completely useless quote?
  (Of course the question in this particular case is not about physical
server disk space and physical bandwidth as the whole article is so short,
but people make the same mistake also with a lot larger articles and
besides the useless quote adds visual noise.)

  Why is it so common anyways that people write their answers at the
beginning of the article and quote the whole original article untouched
at the end? Don't they know how to delete a block of text?
  There are other mistakes people often do (although not in this case,
but I'll just list them as a reminder):

  - Answer first to a specific question and quote whole original article
after that. This makes no sense; people can't know what is the article
answering specially if the quote is long.

  - Too long quotes. It seems that some people don't know how to delete
bigger blocks of text (or for some reason are unwilling to delete anything
from the quote). Even when the answer is properly written after the quote
it's responding to, the writer still makes this mistake and leaves
unnecesarily huge blocks of quoted original text although he is answering
to just a few lines of it.

  - Not quoting anything although answering to a specific question. Although
this is not as bad as the previous ones, it's still better to quote at least
the original question and write the answer after the quote. This way people
will know what you are answering to.
  The only case where no quotes are needed is when the original article is
very long (more than 10 lines or so) and you are responding to the whole
article, to the general idea in it and not to a specific question inside it.
In fact, in these cases the quote _should_ be left out if it's just too long
(else it will be the previous mistake, ie. too long quotes). Another
possibility is to just quote few lines from the beginning and add a line
like "[SNIP]" or similar where the quote was cut out.


-- 
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -

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"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote :
>
>   Sorry about preaching once more about correct news writing,

    I usually don't bother to lecture about this but I agree with almost
every thing you say. I don't care about a few diversions from standard
practice, but when someone is clearly habitually making the reading of their
post difficult, they should be told.

    One thing that your ideas don't take into account though, is that on
most news groups, propagation can be a problem. Sometimes you may want to
include the entire post at the bottom so that others can see the context of
the few snips you used in your reply to show the thread of conversation.

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I know! I already caught my mistake, but that was right after I sent it, and
I couldn't move my posting obviously.
"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
news:3b1f570b@news.povray.org...
> parasonic <par### [at] homecom> wrote:
> : thanks..works like a charm!!!
>
> : "parasonic" <par### [at] homecom> wrote in message
> : news:3b1ea3eb$1@news.povray.org...
> :> Can anyone tell me how I would make a bending tube? I am looking into
> : making
> :> a power cord for a pov'ed soldering iron.
> :>
> :> Thanks!
> :>
> :>
>
>
>   Sorry about preaching once more about correct news writing, but
> some recapitulation might not be bad. And this special article has
> several mistakes.
>   I'll tell you the mistakes in the form of questions:
>
>   1. If you were responding to Ron's article, why did you follow up to
your
> own original question instead of his answer? People will not know who
> are you talking to if you are responding to your own article but talking
> to someone else (specially if it's a longer thread).
>
>   2. Why did you quote the (=your) original article although you are not
> in any way responding to it? When you quote something it's because you
> are writing response to that specific quote.
>
>   3. Why did you write your text at the beginning of the article and left
> a useless quote at the end? You are not responding to the quote and you
are
> not using it in any way for your text. Why are you wasting server space
> and bandwidth for a completely useless quote?
>   (Of course the question in this particular case is not about physical
> server disk space and physical bandwidth as the whole article is so short,
> but people make the same mistake also with a lot larger articles and
> besides the useless quote adds visual noise.)
>
>   Why is it so common anyways that people write their answers at the
> beginning of the article and quote the whole original article untouched
> at the end? Don't they know how to delete a block of text?
>   There are other mistakes people often do (although not in this case,
> but I'll just list them as a reminder):
>
>   - Answer first to a specific question and quote whole original article
> after that. This makes no sense; people can't know what is the article
> answering specially if the quote is long.
>
>   - Too long quotes. It seems that some people don't know how to delete
> bigger blocks of text (or for some reason are unwilling to delete anything
> from the quote). Even when the answer is properly written after the quote
> it's responding to, the writer still makes this mistake and leaves
> unnecesarily huge blocks of quoted original text although he is answering
> to just a few lines of it.
>
>   - Not quoting anything although answering to a specific question.
Although
> this is not as bad as the previous ones, it's still better to quote at
least
> the original question and write the answer after the quote. This way
people
> will know what you are answering to.
>   The only case where no quotes are needed is when the original article is
> very long (more than 10 lines or so) and you are responding to the whole
> article, to the general idea in it and not to a specific question inside
it.
> In fact, in these cases the quote _should_ be left out if it's just too
long
> (else it will be the previous mistake, ie. too long quotes). Another
> possibility is to just quote few lines from the beginning and add a line
> like "[SNIP]" or similar where the quote was cut out.
>
>
> --
> #macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
> rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
> ],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
> 7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -

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parasonic <par### [at] homecom> wrote in message
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> I know! I already caught my mistake, but that was right after I sent it,
and
> I couldn't move my posting obviously.

You can cancel and repost. Looks like you're using Outlook Express.
Click on the message menu and choose 'Cancel message', then repost
in the correct place

<really big snip>

Did you see Warp's comment about quoting unnecessary text?

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parasonic <par### [at] homecom> wrote:
: I know!

  But you still didn't read my text about useless quotes.

-- 
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -

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If ya really want you could go get MegaPOV
http://nathan.kopp.com/patched.htm and use a sphere_sweep.  Basically
you give it points and it connects them with smooth circular tubes.

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David Fontaine  <dav### [at] faricynet>  ICQ 55354965
My raytracing gallery:  http://davidf.faricy.net/

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