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27 Apr 2024 20:14:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: PointWriter: New app for making spline-based shapes easily  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 17 Oct 2014 11:30:01
Message: <web.544135e49ace5295e7df57c0@news.povray.org>
"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> "Nevado" <MYPUBLICNAME(a)sol.dk> wrote:
>
> >.... I
> > spent more hours googling parametric functions and understanding matrix solving
> > than writing the code
>
> I know exactly what you mean.  I had looked over splines and matrices a number
> of times in the past, but never made enough headway in understanding how to
> translate the theory into anything usable.
>
> It would be great if you could at some point share some of what you learned - I
> believe several people here on the boards have expressed some interest at one
> point or another in how splines are interpolated.

I'm working with some 3D splines, and I often find myself defining front, top,
and side views in my development SDL.

Perhaps a future feature would allow the editing of the z-coordinate in an
alternate view.  Have a hot-key that switches view/scaling and which axis
coordinates are fixed and editable.


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