POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Plus and Minus : Re: Plus and Minus Server Time
13 Aug 2024 17:29:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Plus and Minus  
From: Shay
Date: 12 Feb 2003 13:18:14
Message: <3e4a8fe6@news.povray.org>
"Bob Bagwill" <bob### [at] nospicedhamorg> wrote in message
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| I think it needs to be a catenary instead of a paraboloid.
|    http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Catenary.html

Yes, but I don't think he coded it with a spline or mathematical
function. It looks like a csg merge of spheres and cylinders to me.
Adding torus segments at the bends would be a great improvement. I would
build this one with a mesh, but most prefer csg for short code.


            -Shay


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