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  Re: forming a curving cylinder  
From: geogeo
Date: 22 Feb 2010 15:05:01
Message: <web.4b82e3173a22074369aed0ad0@news.povray.org>
"Dave Blandston" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "geogeo" <geo### [at] mecolcouk> wrote:
> > Waht I am trying to achieve is a long thin rod that smoothly takes the form of a
> >  Bezier curve. I can't seem to come up with a good way to do this.
> > - I can place small objects along a bezier spline but this seems a bit crude.
> > - If I sweep out an object using a bezier I guess it will produce a very
> > different solid from what I want.
> >
> > Any ideas anyone?
> > thanks
> > Geo
>
> A sphere_sweep is probably what you need...
>
> Regards,
> Dave Blandston


Had a look at this and tried a few examples, seems to do the job!

thanks,
Geo


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