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hi,
"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> ...
> Wheee! Nice job. :)
start on. :-)
> Can you adjust the symmetry? Have 6-fold, or 7?
> After playing with this stuff a bit, it seems like that whole sin*cos xy yz zx
> thing has a lot of potential as a base pattern to do all sorts of interesting
> things with. Even just the threshold can change the apparent look quite a bit.
yes, I just discovered that replacing "tau" with "pi * scale_factor" and using
slightly different factors, things get real .. interesting.
re your question, I answer with an Obama quote: "Yes, we can" :-) below is
excerpted from my WIP code:
/* added bailout & max_trace */
global_settings {adc_bailout (1/254) assumed_gamma 1 max_trace_level 255}
/* #mirrors */
#declare n_ = 3;
#declare angle_ = 360 / n_;
/* epsilon */
#declare eps_ = 1e-3;
/* length of tube */
#declare len_ = 10;
/* prism with hole */
#declare pi_ = <.99,0,0>;
#declare po_ = <1.01,0,0>;
#declare pts_ = array [n_][2];
#for (i_, 0, n_-1)
#local ta_ = vrotate(po_, <0,(angle_*i_),0>);
#local tb_ = vrotate(pi_, <0,(angle_*i_),0>);
#local pts_[i_][0] = <ta_.x,ta_.z>;
#local pts_[i_][1] = <tb_.x,tb_.z>;
#end
/* rotate to centre on -z */
prism {
linear_spline eps_, len_, 2*(1+n_),
#for (i_,n_-1,0,-1) pts_[i_][0], #end pts_[n_-1][0],
#for (i_,0,n_-1) pts_[i_][1], #end pts_[0][1]
open
sturm on
no_shadow
finish {ambient 0 reflection {1} specular 0}
rotate <270,0,0>
}
regards, jr.
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