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5 Sep 2024 12:18:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Infinite primitives?  
From: Peter Popov
Date: 13 Nov 2000 03:34:13
Message: <3n2u0t0i36buqceccj661fi3tpg2fdo9ad@4ax.com>
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 02:59:58 -0500, Simon Lemieux
<lem### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

>Hi,
>	I was wondering if it was possible to simply have an infinite cylinder? 
>Without any tricks... this should normally be trivial for the renderer... but
>was this coded?

A quadric (anyone remember these?) should do it. Look at shapes.inc
and shapesq.inc in the standard POV-Ray package.


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