> > you need to make the gears more round ... more
> > spherical, and standing on a checkered floor.. Not bad for a
> > first try though.
>
> Yeah, I never though of putting a slope with repsect to z on the gear
> (with respect to x, y the gears are already perfectly cylindrical thanks
> to isosurface)....it would be really easy to get it to conform to any one
> pattern, but I'm not sure how easy it would be to make that slope a
> parameter....that is what you mean, right, like if the gears were more
like
> toruses (tori?) or conical in shape?

I better confess I was playing a joke with you. We have a certain tradition
here that "first posts" should be some kind of reflective sphere standing on
a checkered floor.  :o)

But the idea of a torus-like gear isn't bad!

Best Regards,
Hugo

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