povray <pov### [at] almostbestwebnet> wrote:
> I see no evidence of radiousity, so I guess 30 minutes
> to an hour?
There was radiosity, just very dim. As mentioned, ~25 minutes with radiosity
turned off.

> How the heck do you make this shape in POV-Ray?
It's a parametric curve:
x=sin(a)+2sin(2a)
y=sin(3a)
z=cos(a)-2cos(2a)
0 > a > 2pi

Which is the easy bit. I wrote a macro to evenly space objects in distance
rather than angle, and some macros from transforms.inc are used to align
them with the path. Each brick is an individual mesh object, selected at
random from an array of 10 with different textures. The same goes for the
steps. The handrail is a series of meshes, one per step, which are basically
square prisms...

I can post the code if anybody wants, although I've not finished tinkering
with it yet...!

Bill

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