clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:

> You /could/ just pretend that the parallel curve to an ellipsis is also
> an ellipsis. AFAIK that's not true, but it could be sufficiently close
> for your purposes.

I was initially under the impression that he could do this, but they're similar
shapes, and therefore proportional - not constant distance.

I just took a scaled torus and then made a scaled copy - it's definitely not
good.

I'm assuming Mike wants to make an atmosphere for the globe or something
similar.

> In that case, all you'd have to do would be to scale the ellipsoid.
I already suggested this, and was properly shot down.

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