POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.binaries.animations: Magic Lamp 1 (particle system): Re: Magic Lamp 1 (particle system)

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From: Rune
Date: 21 Feb 2002 02:00:14
Message: <3c749afe@news.povray.org>


> It looks great!

Thanks!

> And I love the smooth path of the lamp! Very movie-like...

I first tried breaking up the motion up into several #if blocks and control
the individual motions with math functions like cos(), sin() and pow(). But
that looked way too stiff, so I ended up just using two splines, one for
rotation and one for position.

Rune
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