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In article <3A0EB1DE.C830462B@peak.edu.ee>, Margus Ramst
<mar### [at] peak edu ee> wrote:
> What do you need it for? Scaling the cylinder up along its axis can
> make it seem infinite for any purpose I can think of.
> You can make an isosurface with an infinite cylindrical function, but
> this too will have to be contained by an infinite object.
As I recall, the list of possible contained_by objects is very
short...box and sphere last I heard.
However, a quadric should do the job, if an infinite cylinder really is
necessary. Maybe a "infinite" keyword could be added to cones and
cylinders...all it would have to do is remove bounding and not clip the
ends and render disks there.
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Christopher James Huff
Personal: chr### [at] mac com, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
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