POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : Splines in POV-Ray : Re: Splines in POV-Ray Server Time
28 Jul 2024 20:25:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Splines in POV-Ray  
From: Thomas Willhalm
Date: 11 Jun 1999 02:53:38
Message: <qqm674vut1o.fsf@goldach.fmi.uni-konstanz.de>
Bob <inv### [at] aolcom> writes:

> Isn't something like the spline includes by Chris Colefax (and there are 
> others) a POV-Ray script which counts as doing this already? Or I suppose 
> you might mean a actual spline keyword to use them internal to POV, in 
> which case I guess this is what was mentioned would be implemented in a 
> future SuperPatch. Altogether different.

He might also think of "sphere sweeps". They are the objects that you get, 
when you sweep a sphere along a spline. Jochen Lippert implemented them
and as far as I know his code is also included in the superpatch.

Thomas

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