Mick Hazelgrove wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I want to shear an isosurface, before anyone says it, I know about the
> shearing macro in transforms.inc but I need to shear an isosurace by using
> some sort of function before blobbing the isosurface - does this make sense?
> 
> if does is it possible and how do I do it?

You can very easily apply transforms to functions with the IsoCSG lib:

http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0013390/pov/ic/

But note that when you have a function representing linear distance from 
a surface (which is usually what you want for blobbing) and you shear it 
(or scale it non-uniformly) you will loose this property of the function.

Christoph

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