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2 Jul 2024 23:00:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: SOR:nurbs or not?  
From: And
Date: 6 Aug 2015 00:55:01
Message: <web.55c2e86f795308e1ed1a9b950@news.povray.org>
"LanuHum" <Lan### [at] yandexru> wrote:
> Why there was a question?
> If I have the correct visualization of a curve in the editor, I can create
> Constructive Solid Geometry.
> On the picture green prism (bezier_spline) and red curve (bezier_spline).
> If sphere_sweep, also as the prism, supported bezier_spline, it is possible to
> write:
> difference{
>     object{prism}
>     object(sphere_sweep}}
>
> I can't make it.
> I can't reel up a spiral on SOR.
> I can SOR and sphere_sweep to model as nurbs, but to write down as cubic.
> But, if to displace control points of a curve on Z, the geometry will be broken,
> but control is absent also correction not to make.

If bezier spline is nothing else than a cubic spline, maybe I can write a macro
for converting.


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