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16 Aug 2024 14:25:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Mesh lathe  
From: David Fontaine
Date: 26 Feb 2002 23:45:01
Message: <3C7C6567.57663355@faricy.net>
Warp wrote:
> 
>   The only concern I have about it is that it uses the "trick" to calculate
> the normal of the spline with the Spline(T+Epsilon)-Spline(T-Epsilon)
> formula. What I'm not sure about is the value for 'Epsilon'. I used 1e-5,
> but that might sometimes be either too big or too small (due to floating
> point number inaccuracies).

No problem, just write a symbolic manipulation include that does
derivation and have it find the exact slope... ;)

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