POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Knurling Macro : Re: Knurling Macro Server Time
31 Jul 2024 22:13:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Knurling Macro  
From: CShake
Date: 25 Mar 2009 00:31:30
Message: <49c9b3a2$1@news.povray.org>
Ok, I'm just being stupid, it should be diagonal. I'll work on that now.

CShake wrote:
> Just finished a macro that will generate a knurled cylinder (since you 
> can't really knurl anything else, it's a lathe operation...).
> 
> Parameters are:
> major_radius (radius to the middle of the knurl)
> knurl_depth
> edge_length (edge being the sides of the square for each point)
> cylinder_height
> flatten_percent (amount of the point flattened off)
> 
> Thanks to clipka for how to CSG with a mesh and have it preserve 
> interior, I had never seen inside_vector before.
> 
> It was inspired by the impressive looking hockey puck by P Brewer, and 
> since he said it was too hard to figure out the mesh, I took it as a 
> math challenge. It is mainly a mesh2, fully optimized with no 
> overlapping vertexes.
> If there is any desire, I will clean it up and post an include file in 
> p.b.sf, else I'll just be happy with my own work.
> 
> cshake
> 
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