"Mike the Elder" <nomail@nomail> schreef in bericht 
news:web.487505f165a8bf655a8888d90@news.povray.org...
> Here's the image:
>
> Basically, the whip is an icosahedron spinning and rotating about the 
> origin
> with the radius of the spiral oscillating a bit to get rid of some of that
> "It's just a mathematical spiral" look. A "bridge piece" was needed to 
> make the
> coil connect up with the handle. Further developments and improvements are
> welcomed.
>
Good work! Maybe you should scale down the faces (?) of the icosahedron a 
bit, to give it a more rope-like aspect.

Thomas

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