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11 May 2026 07:50:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: SOR documentation  
From: kurtz le pirate
Date: 10 May 2026 03:41:09
Message: <6a003695$1@news.povray.org>
On 10/05/2026 04:02, Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> "Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
>> Thank, Ingo - for this and all the other attached work.
>> The spline + shape from the docs is very informative.
>>
>> The sor is a centripetal Catmull rom cubic Hermite spline with a tension, or
>> exponent of 0.5.
>>
>> I'm not sure what cubic_spline is, but having played with that one in the past,
>> it may not be.  I'm pretty sure that TOK has implemented the natural cubic
>> spline.
>> ...
> 
> Yes, I did - some years ago ;-)
> 
> Newsgroup: povray.text.scene-files
> From: Tor Olav Kristensen
> Subject: Even spacing of points along natural cubic splines
> Date: 2010-12-12 09:30:00
>
http://news.povray.org/povray.text.scene-files/thread/%3Cweb.4d04dadb31d78932c734aecd0%40news.povray.org%3E/



A few experiments I had also conducted, but for Bézier curves.
SDL attached.


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