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From: Dirk "DIRKO" Legler
Date: 15 Feb 2003 14:06:23
Message: <3e4e8faf@news.povray.org>
"Anthony D. Baye" <ban### [at] Rapidnetcom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:3E4E7DB5.61F82FE8@Rapidnet.com...
> Looking really good, however, the bowl looks like it was molded around the
> base.  Unless this is the way you wanted it, you can find the radius of
the
> sphere at a given point with the following equation:

Sorry, but wat is "molded"? Couldn't find a translation in my dictionary..
>
> sqrt(pow(gr,2) - pow(dr,2))    <<-- in graphic form below.
>
> where <b>gr</b> is the given radius of the sphere you started with, and
> <b>dr</b> is the desired radius.  This will render the distance of that
> radius from the center of the sphere. I use a graphing calculator for
this,
> but a really good scientific one will do.

I wish I could afford babylon.com translator ;) Isn't it the desired radius
that is to calculate with that equation? Or what is it for?

*confused* DIRKO


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