duh... I forgot to close it up!  should have been 8 points!  sigh.  That's
what I get for writing pov code at 2am!

Thanks!
-Dayv



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> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 01:51:33 -0500, "Dayv" <gda### [at] homecom>
wrote:
>
> > Why do I get "error:  Too few points in prism." ??  I said 7 points.. I
see
> > 7 points... what's the deal??
>
> Works fine when you change 6th point with value of 2nd.
>
> analyze comments from 3.5 documentation example, note where is <0,0>
>
> prism {
>    cubic_spline
>    0, 1, 7,
>    <1,-1>, <0,0>, <6,0>, //outer rim; First control is <1,-1> and
>    <6,8>, <0,8>, <0,0>,  //<0,0> is first & last point.
>    <-1,1>,               //Last control of first spline is <-1,1>
>  }
>
> "In the cubic_spline, each sub-prism needs two additional control
points -- one
> at the beginning of each sub-prisms' point sequence to determine the slope
at
> the start of the curve and one at the end. The first point specified is
the
> control point which is not actually part of the spline. The second point
is the
> start of the spline. The sub-prism ends when this second point is
duplicated.
> The next point is the control point of the end of the first sub-prism.
Next is
> the beginning control point of the next sub-prism. The point after that is
the
> first point of the second sub-prism."
>
> ABX

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