POV-Ray : Newsgroups : moray.win : Helix? : Re: Helix? Server Time
28 Jun 2024 23:58:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Helix?  
From: Timothy R  Cook
Date: 5 Nov 2002 18:54:52
Message: <3dc85a4c$1@news.povray.org>
Steve Shelby wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there any good way to make a helix with moray? I want to make a coil
> spring. I tried using the new mesh and was not happy with the results. It
> really slows down the program. I know I can make one using a sphere and
> duplicate with orbit, but it takes 1000 spheres, and still you can see the
> segmentation, which I don't want. Has anyone any experience with this?

sphere_sweep?

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Tim Cook
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