Edouard Poor <pov### [at] edouardinfo> wrote:
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> Which means I can design an outline in an vector drawing package like
> Illustrator, and then render the resulting lathe in POV.
>
> Attached are a couple of test images using this.

I like the first one especially - are the chips bumpmapped? Very convincing if
so.

Just in case you didn't know - Inkscape (an open-source vector editor) can
output POV-Ray splines directly. It defaults to prisms but it's a few seconds'
work to change them to lathes.

Bill

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