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8 Aug 2024 04:11:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: NIagara WIP Fife Rail (80k)  
From: Tim McMurdo
Date: 28 Sep 2005 19:50:01
Message: <web.433b2b96f20d7d63395d82550@news.povray.org>
> amazing work,...
> even though on the second look the coils seems to penetrate each other
> which would end up in an gordian knot :-)
> I don't have a clue how to avoid this in a simple fashion.
> Maybe you can get the extents of the allready existing coils and use
> them as "forbidden volumes" while generating each coil after another.
>
> ... dave

Thank you very much. :) The overlapping coils have been an issue and I have
tried several solutions. So far everytime I clean up the overlap, the
effect becomes too clean. I have tried a slightly different version of the
forbidden volumes idea. I may give your version a try though.

Thanks,

Tim


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