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5 Sep 2024 12:16:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: rounding off the edges  
From: Bill Brehm
Date: 4 Nov 2000 09:43:04
Message: <3a042078$1@news.povray.org>
The web site you listed didn't work. I also looked for a link on yours but
couldn't find one. Any chance someone knows where it moved to?

Bill


"Steve" <ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet> wrote in message
news:slr### [at] zero-ppslocaldomain...
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 18:56:22 -0700, Bill Brehm wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Is there a way to round off the edges of an object, either 2D or 3D,
without
> >doing all the calculations manually?
> >
> >Say I want to make a circle with a cross removed, and want the three
sharp
> >cormers on each quadrant to have a radius no smaller than a specified
value.
> >I know I could remove a small square from each sharp edge, then add back
a
> >circle, but that is tedious. I'd like to say, take that object and make
the
> >minimum radius such and such.
>
> David Fontain has a small macro that'll smooth the edges on almost
> anything.  You'll probably want to make your cross as a prisam, and
> use his prisam rounded edges macro (I think he's doen prisams), his web
> site's here:
>
>  http://davidf.faricy.net/
>
> Good luck.
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> Steve              email mailto:ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet
>
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>
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>
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