Hi, there,

    Here is some stuff I played with since the last
two days:

#macro Geo_flower ( rad_whole_thing, step_num, line_thickness, smoother,
circonf )

I made this macro quite quickly,  and it works well.
In fact,  the only problem is that this macro doesn't
have a great usefullness !  But it doesn' t matter,
I did it as a challenge,  in trying to ask the computer
to find the good radius',  dependently of the number
of steps a given shape has been programmed for.
Also,  a "smoother" keyword give the possibility
to smooth the curves...  The whole thing is done
using csg and trig calculations.

Is this an idea of some interest ?...  Or should I move
somewhere else ?

               Alex Pilot

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me like!

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  F.Audet <flo### [at] sympaticoca> wrote in message 
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  Hi, there, 
      Here is some stuff I played with since the last 
  two days: 

  #macro Geo_flower ( rad_whole_thing, step_num, line_thickness, 
smoother, circonf ) 

  I made this macro quite quickly,  and it works well. 
  In fact,  the only problem is that this macro doesn't 
  have a great usefullness !  But it doesn' t matter, 
  I did it as a challenge,  in trying to ask the computer 
  to find the good radius',  dependently of the number 
  of steps a given shape has been programmed for. 
  Also,  a "smoother" keyword give the possibility 
  to smooth the curves...  The whole thing is done 
  using csg and trig calculations. 

  Is this an idea of some interest ?...  Or should I move 
  somewhere else ? 

                 Alex Pilot 



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Hello,

Sure this has my interest!  Will you give me the macro?   :o))   I'd like to
examine it, and about usefulness, well, we never know...

Hugo



> F.Audet wrote:
> #macro Geo_flower ( rad_whole_thing, step_num, line_thickness, smoother,
circonf )
>
> Is this an idea of some interest ?...  Or should I move
> somewhere else ?

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"F.Audet" wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi, there,
> 
>     Here is some stuff I played with since the last
> two days:
> 
> #macro Geo_flower ( rad_whole_thing, step_num, line_thickness,
> smoother, circonf )
> 
> I made this macro quite quickly,  and it works well.
> In fact,  the only problem is that this macro doesn't
> have a great usefullness !  But it doesn' t matter,
> I did it as a challenge,  in trying to ask the computer
> to find the good radius',  dependently of the number
> of steps a given shape has been programmed for.
> Also,  a "smoother" keyword give the possibility
> to smooth the curves...  The whole thing is done
> using csg and trig calculations.
> 
> Is this an idea of some interest ?...  Or should I move
> somewhere else ?
> 
>                Alex Pilot

I did something similar a long time ago using plain spheres. The next
step is to start moving them around the third axis as well so you can
create knot rings and the like.

Any learning experience is a good thing when it comes to POV-Ray.

Josh English

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> Sure this has my interest!  Will you give me the macro?   :o))   I'd like to
> examine it, and about usefulness, well, we never know...
>

I have to look at this code one last time,  because there are a
couple of things which are not working the way I want!
The code will be on "binaries.scenes-files" quite soon;  have
a look at it,  may be you will find something we could add
to improve the concept...  In fact,  the idea came to me in
remembering such old 2d drawing programs as "Free_Hand"
and Illustrator;  those drawing softwares always have an
option to draw geometric shapes like stars or rounded coins
gearing_like stuff... Giving the option to choose the number
of steps to be draw, around a circle.

Thank you,     Alex

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> I did something similar a long time ago using plain spheres.

I did it with torus'

> The next
> step is to start moving them around the third axis as well so you can
> create knot rings and the like.

I think you mean that one could push this idea a bit farter,  and draw
the
wavy shapes vertically,  instead of horizontally...  Isn' t it ?!

                              Alex

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I think here is what Josh E. was speaking about:
the knoted rings...

P.S. ( the macro is on "scene-files"...  look for "Geo_flower")

Alex Pilot

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