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  Re: GlowString.jpg (26Kbu)  
From: David Fontaine
Date: 3 Dec 2000 18:33:17
Message: <3A2AD79D.1C5989D9@faricy.net>
Andy Cocker wrote:

> The macro simply places a number of glows equally spaced between two points.
> It would be improved if the glowstring could be made 'slack', so that it
> dropped in the middle as though affected by gravity, but I have absolutely
> no idea how to do something like that.

That would be a parabola (actually, a catenoid, but parabola suffices and
mathworld.wolfram.com is down).

To find arc length is difficult...

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