Chris Colefax <chr### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> The easiest way
> to find a spline's length, then, is probably sampling linear distances at
> steps along the spline.

  Isn't the main problem with this that it always returns a value which
is too small? (Although usually it doesn't matter as long as it's close
enough to the true value...)

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