POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.windows : Wall of China Problem : Re: Wall of China Problem Server Time
28 Jul 2024 16:32:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Wall of China Problem  
From: Ronald L  Parker
Date: 8 Jul 1998 23:14:00
Message: <35a423d7.78254543@news.povray.org>
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 19:27:58 -0700, "David Vincent-Jones"
<geo### [at] galaxynetcom> wrote:

>Currently the only real solution that I see is to break the wall into
>multiple segments, and calculate a Box element for each leg of the wall
>This is a very tedious solution and creates poor corners.

How about using a prism?  You'll have to use a little vector algebra
to compute the control points, and you'll have to be able to read the
points in the file backwards and forwards, but it shouldn't be too
hard.


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