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28 Sep 2024 18:33:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Rounded Prisms  
From: PM 2Ring
Date: 24 Nov 2005 20:35:00
Message: <web.43866a167ed7ae6cad93754b0@news.povray.org>
Jellby <me### [at] privacynet> wrote:
> Among other things, PM 2Ring saw fit to write:
>
> > Here's another sneak preview of tiled polyominoes:
>
> Would it be possible to have rounded inner corners as well?
>
> I mean, where the polygon is concave, you see a "seam" in the rounded edge,
> I guess you need a torus here.

Yes, a partial torus would do the job. And the algorithm that finds the
polyomino corners can tell the difference between inner & outer corners.
I've been thinking of adding rounded inner corners, but I'm trying to avoid
using differences & intersections, for efficiency reasons.


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