Ken wrote in message <368F5CC7.209AC4C2@pacbell.net>...
>Alan Kong wrote:
>
>> Joe (ppr### [at] turbontnet) said:
>>
>> >> Does anybody know of a method of making curved cylinders?
>> >> It'd be very useful in furniture as well as other things -- thanks.
>>
>>   You can use Ron Parker's Superpatch unofficial build of POV-Ray, which
>> incorporates Jochen Lippert's Sphere Sweeps patch. You can 'cap' the ends
of
>> the sweeps with cylinders to make the sweep appear as a continuously
curved
>> cylinder. Very useful for furniture.
>>
>> - Alan
>
>But then again that patch is not supported in Moray so ...


HOWEVER.. There IS a way to make it easy. Set a number of spheres, with the
radius you want, at the points you want. Name them all something that is
easy to search for, like "SphereSweepUnit". Then, in the pov-ray 3.1 editor
(win95) do a search for each instance, and copy them into a sphere_sweep
statement. It'll give you the points you want... at a minimum of tweaking...


twyst

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