On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 20:53:25 -0700, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
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>Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
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>> But, but, but ...
>> ...How are we supposed to model such cigar shapes then?
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>A lathe can do it with ease and can also be used in CSG operations.

 I have been having exactly the same problem with the chimney of a loco that I
am modelling.  I was using a cone with the fillet radii being produced by the
outside surface of two tori.  These fillets have a different texture to the rest
of the chimney, presumably because of the normal being the wrong way.

A lathe object should solve this problem, but at the expense of a much more
involved definition requiring a bezier_spline definition.
David
dav### [at] hamiltonitecom
http://www.hamiltonite.com/

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