Lance Birch wrote:
> 
> Very nice!  I really like it.
> 
> My brother has just finished his thesis for his honours project at
> university (actually he just graduated with first class honours).
congratulations 

> The graph->mountain splines look very nice.
Actually I did not use splines. The data is taken from one of the
figures inside the thesis. The paper is actually a bitmap.
To get a smooth transition to the lines upto the mountain these
lines are bitmaps too, with a transparent background.
these lines come together in a knot (actually a ball with a bitmap)
two reasons for that: I did not know how to get a smooth 
transistion to the cable and second my positioning of the bitmaps
with respect to the mountain was not so critical  ;)
The cable itself is a set of standard tubes with an image_map
pigment. I used shades of red stripes and one blue to get the
impression of a twisted cable (which is difficult to see at the 
posted resoluton but looks good in the actual book)
So I took some shortcuts, but at the resolution of the book it
all worked.

	Andrel

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