POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : rounding off the edges : Re: rounding off the edges Server Time
5 Nov 2024 03:19:30 EST (-0500)
  Re: rounding off the edges  
From: Steve
Date: 3 Nov 2000 22:54:41
Message: <slrn9071nq.q2u.steve@zero-pps.localdomain>
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 18:56:22 -0700, Bill Brehm wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Is there a way to round off the edges of an object, either 2D or 3D, without
>doing all the calculations manually?
>
>Say I want to make a circle with a cross removed, and want the three sharp
>cormers on each quadrant to have a radius no smaller than a specified value.
>I know I could remove a small square from each sharp edge, then add back a
>circle, but that is tedious. I'd like to say, take that object and make the
>minimum radius such and such.

David Fontain has a small macro that'll smooth the edges on almost
anything.  You'll probably want to make your cross as a prisam, and 
use his prisam rounded edges macro (I think he's doen prisams), his web 
site's here:

 http://davidf.faricy.net/

Good luck. 


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