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  segmented helix?  
From: Steve Shelby
Date: 24 Jan 2002 22:42:59
Message: <3c50d443@news.povray.org>
Hello,
I wonder if I am trying something that is impossible. I want to create a
segmented tube, using rings (short cylinders) and the duplication function.
It's easy to make one with spheres, using "orbit", but that doesn't work
with rings, because there seems to be no way to make the rings orient
themselves correctly in relation to the helix, that is, so they form a tube,
rather than looking like a wierd stack of coins. (See the file I have posted
in Moray.binaries) I have tried every combination of rotation I can think
of, and nothing seems to work. Is there a way to do this?
Thank you,
Steve Shelby


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