Mike Williams <nos### [at] econymdemoncouk> wrote:
> Wasn't it Dave! who wrote:
> >What I actually want to do is something like this:
> >
> >cone {
> ><0,0,0>, 1 scale <1,1,1.5>
> ><0,1,0>, 1 scale <1,1,2.5>
> >}
> >
> >I know that this isn't proper syntax, but I hope it illustrates what I'm
> >after.  The endcaps each have a different radius, but the scaling for the
> >two endcaps is different.  Can this be done?
>
> I think the proper syntax for that is
>
> #include "shapes.inc"
> object{ Supercone(<0,0,0>, 1, 1.5 , <0,1,0>, 1 2.5)}
>
> but I don't think that it actually achieves your objective.

Hmm--I'll mess around with it this evening.  Thanks to you both for your
insight.  I'll let you know how things turn out.

Is there a good online tutorial for isosurfaces?  I didn't have much luck
with the POV-Ray help docs.

Thanks again.

Dave!

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