POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Lathe. Bezier_spline. Problem : Re: Lathe. Bezier_spline. Problem Server Time
5 May 2024 08:17:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Lathe. Bezier_spline. Problem  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 2 May 2016 12:40:00
Message: <web.572782509e3d3d24b488d9aa0@news.povray.org>
I have always wondered what the big deal about negative values was, since once
it gets revolved 180 degrees, it's the positive value.

Can the on-curve points simply be redefined to be positive?
on_curve[n] = abs(original_curve[n]) ?

I could of course, be way off base with this.


The pre-evaluation of the on-curve points for things like Bezier curves would be
an extra subroutine and parser hog, but probably shouldn't be too bad unless
there were a lot of such objects to evaluate.


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.