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  Re: Curving cylinders and cones?  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 1 Oct 2000 17:46:06
Message: <39d7b09e@news.povray.org>
In article <39D79DE8.C3F35E29@yahoo.com> , Simon Lemieux 
<lem### [at] yahoocom>  wrote:

> I was wondering if there were a command for bending/curving/etc a cylinder or
> a cone?  Where should i look in the manual for such command?  I'm currently
> putting a lot of little cylinders/cones and rotate them all with a script to
> give a good curving effect... but this slows the render a bit since there is
> like 200 cylinders for one...

Did you consider using torii for this?  You can cut them into smaller pieces
using CSG.


     Thorsten


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