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From: Shay
Date: 13 Aug 2007 11:02:01
Message: <46c07269$1@news.povray.org>
Jim Charter wrote:

> ... you used boolean subtraction of torii?  Again I have been
> trying exactly the same approach but with POV CSG.  The problem
> I had was getting the circumference of the torus to decrease at
> an rate appropriate to the diminishing circumference of the tapering
> shaft.

How about sphere_sweeps for column and flutes? Evaluating the spline
functions would give any circumference you need.

 -Shay


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