Skip,
Basically I trace the surface of the hull and use that to generate a series
of points that I connect with cylendars and triangles. The hull is a patch.
Attached is the code. The top image shows the traingles and cylinders and
the bottom image shows them properly textured.
Tim
"Skip Talbot" <Ski### [at] aol com> wrote in message
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> Tim, would you mind explaining how your trace functions work? I'm
> having trouble following. When you say you trace the hull, what exactly
> is your ray intersecting: patches, a mesh? And then how are you using
> the output? Are you approximating the curvature of the hull with a
> trace every few units, or putting the output in a spline?
>
> Skip
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