POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Isosurface help : Re: Isosurface help Server Time
29 Jul 2024 14:23:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Isosurface help  
From: Chaanakya
Date: 24 Jul 2012 15:55:01
Message: <web.500efc80fb628f717f523b7e0@news.povray.org>
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 24.07.2012 14:48, schrieb Chaanakya:
> > clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>
> >> This gives you a cut-sphere dome over a square base, with the corners
> >> "resting" at y=0 and the apex reaching up to y=YHEIGHT (radius of the
> >> sphere is computed automatically); alternatively, you can specify the
> >> radius of the sphere (apex height is computed automatically), see
> >> commented-out lines.
> >
> > That's almost what I'm looking for, thank you!  Is it possible to have the sides
> > smoothly decline to y=0? (Rather than have it sharply decline as it does here?)
>
> Not with a sphere cutout (nor with a paraboloid). I don't know a formula
> off the top of my head that does this.

Alright thank you very much :)  I'll work with this and see what happens.  Thank
you again!

- Chaanakya


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