POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : Splines in POV-Ray : Re: Splines in POV-Ray Server Time
29 Jul 2024 02:30:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Splines in POV-Ray  
From: Ken
Date: 11 Jun 1999 02:56:41
Message: <3760B06C.9107D43D@pacbell.net>
Thomas Willhalm wrote:
> 
> Bob <inv### [at] aolcom> writes:
> 
> > Isn't something like the spline includes by Chris Colefax (and there are
> > others) a POV-Ray script which counts as doing this already? Or I suppose
> > you might mean a actual spline keyword to use them internal to POV, in
> > which case I guess this is what was mentioned would be implemented in a
> > future SuperPatch. Altogether different.
> 
> He might also think of "sphere sweeps". They are the objects that you get,
> when you sweep a sphere along a spline. Jochen Lippert implemented them
> and as far as I know his code is also included in the superpatch.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> --
> http://www.fmi.uni-konstanz.de/~willhalm

Povray with sphere sweeps:
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~vader/pss/pss.html

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net


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