Yea thats it.  I need to learn splines.

Marc Schimmler wrote:
> 
> portelli wrote:
> >
> >         I'm trying to make a blood cell and I am not very successful.  First I
> > tried using a circle of blobs, using a while loop.  I worked sort of,
> > but not good enough.  I'm not to good with splines but I'm going to try
> > and do that.
> 
> Just a quick try to it with splines. Maybe this is what you are looking
> for (You looking for the red ones, right?). Excuse the bad texturing.
> 
> Marc
> --
> Marc Schimmler
> 
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  [Image]
> 
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> camera {location <-16,4,0>
>         look_at  <0,0,0>}
> 
> light_source {<-4,12,0> rgb <1,1,1>}
> light_source {<-4,-12,0> rgb <1,1,1>}
> light_source {<-4,2,-10> rgb <1,1,1>}
> light_source {<-4,2,100> rgb <1,1,1>}
> 
> #declare rseed = seed(643568734);
> 
> //+++++++++ red blood cell declaration ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> #declare red_cell = object{
> lathe {
> cubic_spline
> 12,
> <0.000, 0.410>,
> <0.000, 0.410>,
> <1.200, 0.335>,
> <2.475, 0.035>,
> <3.300, 0.185>,
> <3.600, 0.635>,
> <3.600, 1.235>,
> <3.300, 1.685>,
> <2.400, 1.835>,
> <1.200, 1.535>,
> <0.000, 1.460>,
> <0.000, 1.460>
> 
> pigment {rgb <1,0,0>}
> finish {phong 0.3 ambient 0.2 }}
> };
> 
> //+++++++++++ random placing of 20 blood cells +++++++++++++++
> 
> #declare i = 0;
> 
> #while (i < 20)
>   object{ red_cell
>      translate <rand(rseed)*10,rand(rseed)*10, rand(rseed)*10>
>          rotate    <360*rand(rseed),360*rand(rseed),360*rand(rseed)>}
>   #declare i = i + 1;
> #end;

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