I need to step in and back-up Ken here. What brought me to this group to begin with
was
this very thing - exrusions and splines - several months later I get the answer I'm
looking
for ( not the default "get a modeler like moray or spatch" ) , however it is tossed
rather
casually into a message buried in a thread that know one in 2 weeks time will remeber
that
it is even here. This I stumbled upon quite by accident  - but I wonder how many
thousands
that may look and lurk here between now and forever will not benefit from other's hard
work
and discoveries if that data is not stored in the places that claim to have that data
stored there - imagine your O/S putting files wherever it felt like and suddenly you
need
to find a file somewhere under some drive in some folder or sub-folder or sub-sub
folder on
your 8+ gig hard drive.    ;-]

KB-

Ken wrote:

> Gilles Tran wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the reference Ken, but my spline macro may be overkill for that. Also,
the
> > macro doesn't modify the size of the extruded shape (no pointy end), and splines
with
> > that kind of perfect mathematical shape are hard to figure out. Perhaps a little
> > "connect-the-dot" macro would do (not putting this in scenes-files because it's
> > really too small).  It's not perfect but you get the idea.
> > Gilles
>
>  I somehow had the impression that your macro could change shape as it
> progressed along it's path. From what you say I now get the impression
> that this is not so. Sorry for my lack of understanding and I will give
> your macro more study so as to acertain it's true functionality before
> again refering it to others for a given task.
>
>  Regarding as to whether the code should have been placed in this group
> or the scene files group that is where I am forced to disagree. To you
> it may seem like a trivial piece of Pov script but to others it may seem
> like magic. Many learn by example but where that example is hidden or
> obscured there is no knowlege to be gained. What is gained from writing
> a book but refusing to publish it ? What good is a book of beginnings
> with no one to admire it ?
>
>  Who will be able to find it here in three months time ?
>  Who will be able to find it in the scene-files group in three months time ?
>
>  I think that answer to both questions is obvious.
>  No one and everyone respectively with no disrespect intended.
>
> --
> Ken Tyler
>
> mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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