I like A the best, but it may be because of the lighting which is not
uniform from collumn to collumn.

BTW, I should have an corinthien collumn from the Books of Palladio's
somewhere, although the shaft is made of cylinders and cones. (I beleive I
was using pov 2.x at the time).

Povingly,


Philippe

Ib Rasmussen wrote:
> I am trying to model a column of the Tuscan order after the
> drawings in "The First Book of Andrea Palladio's Architecture". The
> base and top is easy enough, being simple geometrical shapes, but
> the shaft of the column is another matter. It should not be a
> simple cone, but have some swelling along the way up, to counteract
> some optical effect.
>
> The method Palladio uses to get the shape, is to make the lower
> third of the shaft perpendicular, and then place "the edge of a
> thin rule" along that line and bend it back to the "point of
> diminution" at the top of the shaft.
>
> Since I can't find anything in the PovRay docs about using "thin
> rulers" to odel things, I have tried to fake..eh..approximate the
> shape with some different CSG primitives. I have come up with three
> variations, but I'm having problems deciding, which one looks best,
> so I thought I'd ask your opinions.
>
> In the attached image the two colums on the left is one solution
> (designated A), the tow in the middle another (B), and the two on
> the right a third (C). Now just tell me which version you think
> looks best, most "classical", most pleasing to the eye, or what you
> want to call it.
>
> TIA
> /Ib

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