"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
....
> I'm looking to progress along a spline in a linear fashion - regularly spaced
> intervals.
....
> (What I'm trying to do at this point is "draw" between my sphere sweep and
> another sphere sweep or spline to "fill-in" the space between the two.  Maybe
> there's a better way that escapes me at the moment.)

Did you see these two posts ?

Newsgroup: povray.binaries.images
From: Tor Olav Kristensen
Subject: Spacing of points along natural cubic splines
Date: 12th Dec 2010
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3Cweb.4d04e35320256a0cc734aecd0%40news.povray.org%3E/

Newsgroup: povray.text.scene-files
From: Tor Olav Kristensen
Subject: Even spacing of points along natural cubic splines
Date: 12th Dec 2010
http://news.povray.org/povray.text.scene-files/thread/%3Cweb.4d04dadb31d78932c734aecd0%40news.povray.org%3E/

I suggest that you make your own sphere sweeps with these functions (with
"connected" spheres, cylinders and cones if the spheres radii varies).
That way there's no need to "recover" the t-values afterwards.

--
Tor Olav
http://subcube.com

Post a reply to this message