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  Re: Describing a perfect circle with a spline.  
From: Charles C
Date: 26 Sep 2007 11:15:01
Message: <web.46fa7713bd0f5648c667cf480@news.povray.org>
"Charles C" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

> True. There's always the fact that we're using floats with a finite number
> of bits.  I figure <2*pi*cos(Value),2*pi*sin(Value),0> is probably as close
> to definition as we can express.  My thinking was just that maybe he could
> elminate the added aproximation that comes with using a spline by
> retrieving points from the spline that happen to be the very same points
> that defined the spline.
> Charles
Hmm, I hate it when I look back and see I'd typed something wrong:  Anyone
reading this please re-read the above as if I'd put the 2*pi inside the
sin/cos functions like I did the first time... :-)
Charles


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