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5 Sep 2024 12:19:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Infinite primitives?  
From: Margus Ramst
Date: 12 Nov 2000 10:05:25
Message: <3A0EB1DE.C830462B@peak.edu.ee>
Simon Lemieux wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>         I was wondering if it was possible to simply have an infinite cylinder?
> Without any tricks... this should normally be trivial for the renderer... but
> was this coded?
> 

What do you need it for? Scaling the cylinder up along its axis can make it seem
infinite for any purpose I can think of.
You can make an isosurface with an infinite cylindrical function, but this too
will have to be contained by an infinite object.

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Margus Ramst

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