In article <3a4234be@news.povray.org>, "Dave Blandston" 
<gra### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:

> It would be ideal to build this function into POV I think, because 
> increasing the number of cuts enough to smooth out the corners 
> creates such a complex object that it renders very slowly. But it 
> sure looks great!

Building the object as it is into POV wouldn't speed rendering any...but 
a related method might be useful, which would use more "cuts" in areas 
that have sharp corners (kind of like anti-aliasing of geometry) and 
fakes the normal in the bevelled areas to get smoother results.
Personally, I would go for turning the text object into a mesh, that way 
you could also do rounded edges, you could even define a spline to form 
the edges with, like you went over the object with a router. It might 
even render faster than an ordinary mesh object, instead of slower...and 
it could be hooked into Warp's tesselation patch.

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Christopher James Huff
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