POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: There must be a better way to do threads: Re: There must be a better way to do threads

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : There must be a better way to do threads : Re: There must be a better way to do threads		Server Time 2 Nov 2024 09:19:04 EDT (-0400)

From: Christopher James Huff
Date: 25 Mar 2004 13:52:29
Message: <cjameshuff-D5E66C.13524825032004@news.povray.org>

In article <cjameshuff-7E0E3C.13495525032004@news.povray.org>,
 Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:

> There are several better ways. You could build a mesh or use an 
> isosurface, for example. The mesh would probably be faster, the 
> isosurface would use less memory and wouldn't have faceting problems.

BTW, an easy method of generating a mesh would be to use the 
cylinderical height field macro in shapes.inc. Just use a spiral pattern 
function to bring out the threads.

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Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
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