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2 May 2024 19:49:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Bezier-patch torus  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 19 Sep 2018 18:20:00
Message: <web.5ba2cabcdc5d6572458c7afe0@news.povray.org>
Alain <kua### [at] videotronca> wrote:
> Le 18-09-18 à 15:11, Bald Eagle a écrit :
>
> > So - here's a coil wrapping around a torus 5 times.   Super easy as a sphere
> > weep and parametric or isosurface or polynomial...   but if the torus is
> > deformed...
> >
> 5 times around ? Then, why to I count 12 rotations ?

We use common core principles to guess at the floating-point values, and when
you do that, 5 = 12 for sufficiently large values of 5.


No really, I started off with 5, and decided it looked better with 12.

It was a counting test - you passed!   :D


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