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17 Apr 2024 21:34:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: challenge: surface connecting cubic_splines  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 9 Aug 2018 12:00:01
Message: <web.5b6c64ede21a6a89c437ac910@news.povray.org>
Le_Forgeron <jgr### [at] freefr> wrote:
> If I got the problem exposed in "Smoothing bicubic_patchs, A pain":
> * you have four non-coplanar points, each pair of the external 4 sided
> figure connected by cubic splines (each pair is adjacent on its spline,
> no intermediate point on the spline)
>
>
> Challenge: have a nice surface which joins each splines.
>
>
> For start, an illustration of a possible setting.

Yes, and now if you iteratively made that smaller, you'd approach the true
surface.  I think with smooth_triangles it would look fairly decent.

How you subdivide such rectangles is the challenge, because you have to
interpolate along the splines.


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