"clipka"  wrote in message news:51f0ca6b@news.povray.org...
> You'd actually have to ask Chris Cason whether that Wishlist still exists; 
> I /think/ the books and hardware that were on that list have all been 
> donated by now.

I think I found the list. You're right: empty. Every programmer I know is 
constantly reading books. Someone should put something up there.

> So what you are saying is that you also beveled the transition between the 
> "petals" and the tori forming the end of the small-hole extrusions; is 
> that the essence of it?

I /think/ so. For each small hole, I used 1 object for the hole, 1 object to 
bound, and 16 objects to build the extrusion, though the 16 could be 
optimized to 14. That's probably where the majority of the object count 
difference can be found.

> Sounds like you used clipping as a substitute for intersection, is that 
> what you're saying?

Correct. I didn't sit down and count intersection tests to make sure that 
was the most efficient way. Maybe it isn't.

> Okay, okay - I'll try to come up with formulae for all those parameters...

As far as I'm concerned, hand-coding is hand-coding, by hook or by crook 
(though my way seems a lot more fun).

Priggish professional programmers are the reason I don't post code in these 
forums. One told me that I shouldn't be coding algorithms if I don't know 
what a stack is. That's like my saying he shouldn't be writing newsgroup 
posts if he doesn't know what a chiasmus is.

-Shay

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