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From: Insertnamehere
Subject: bezier_spline Lathe as isosurface?
Date: 1 Dec 2003 15:53:34
Message: <3fcbaa4e$1@news.povray.org>
Hello.

I want to make an orange (in povray, of course. otherwise, i could buy it in
the next supermarket ;). However, for an orange the bumpsy skin is
important, so I dont want to work with normal, but with isosurfaces. A pity
I dont like function-formulars, and so I need help: Is there a way to make
this Lathe:

lathe { bezier_spline
    4,  <0,0.3>, <0.4,0>, <0.75,1.3>, <0, 0.95>}

become an isosurface?

Thx in advance.


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From: Christopher James Huff
Subject: Re: bezier_spline Lathe as isosurface?
Date: 1 Dec 2003 21:41:06
Message: <cjameshuff-388A35.21402301122003@netplex.aussie.org>
In article <3fcbaa4e$1@news.povray.org>,
 "Insertnamehere" <dra### [at] gmxde> wrote:

> I want to make an orange (in povray, of course. otherwise, i could buy it in
> the next supermarket ;). However, for an orange the bumpsy skin is
> important, so I dont want to work with normal, but with isosurfaces. A pity
> I dont like function-formulars, and so I need help: Is there a way to make
> this Lathe:
> 
> lathe { bezier_spline
>     4,  <0,0.3>, <0.4,0>, <0.75,1.3>, <0, 0.95>}

Well, a lathe seems like a very poor choice of a shape for an orange. 
And creating a lathe isosurface would be pretty difficult. Really, the 
best shape to use for this is just an isosurface based on a sphere 
function.

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