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29 Jul 2024 12:15:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Volume-preserving blob  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 13 Oct 2002 04:26:03
Message: <3da92e1b@news.povray.org>
In article <3da89baa@news.povray.org> , "Rune" <run### [at] mobilixnetdk>
wrote:

> I don't know exponential functions very well, but I agree that it
> shouldn't be that difficult to get smooth blobs, and that it would only
> require the individual blob components to use functions whose second
> derivatives match up.

I am probably misunderstanding you here because you seem to suggest blobs
are _not_ based on exponential functions?  They are [1]...

    Thorsten


[1] An Introduction to Ray Tracing, page 97/98

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