"Warp" wrote:
> I was experimenting with a small macro which creates
> a mesh shaped like a lathe from a spline.

Ohh, that's very nice! The second image looks very realistic!

Have you found out what the speed increase is?

Also, have you compared the shape with a real lathe object using the same
control points? As the cubic spline used isn't the same, they might differ a
little. I also see that the two places where the spline meet the center axis
are not smooth, because the spline has not been closed properly. (Well, I
assume it was not intentional.) That's probably because it's not very easy
to close a natural cubic spline, which is the one currently used in the
spline feature, but not the one used in lathes.

Rune
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