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24 Apr 2024 14:11:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Elliptical torus  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 14 May 2020 20:40:00
Message: <web.5ebde41ba032ea3dfb0b41570@news.povray.org>
"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:

> This was very exciting to me, as it solves some problems I've had with sine
> waves and offset curves.
> But as you can see, it also fixes the scaling of the thickness of an ellipse.
> You can imagine this being used to fix a torus scaled into an elliptical torus.

AND .... this same approach was implemented by ... user And in 2013 to make
constant-thickness isosurface shells.

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