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Re: Teardrops
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lugnet.cad.ray
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Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:37:19 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Dave Schuler writes:
> How the heck do I make good teardrop shapes in POV-Ray? I've tried with all
> manner of paired half-spheres, but I can't get the right "pinchiness" on the
> narrow end. I've also tried experimenting with splines and SOR formations,
> but I can't generate the proper curve for the surface!
Try creating a lathe object using a quadratic or cubic spline.
http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/48/
--Bram
Bram Lambrecht
bram@cwru.edu
www.bldesign.org
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| (...) approximating the character of the curve. Orion emailed me a pointer to the Glob_5 shape in one of the POV-Ray .inc files, and that was quite a help. I played with the vertex sequence, but my liberal arts brain turns to mush when dealing with (...) (22 years ago, 14-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| How the heck do I make good teardrop shapes in POV-Ray? I've tried with all manner of paired half-spheres, but I can't get the right "pinchiness" on the narrow end. I've also tried experimenting with splines and SOR formations, but I can't generate (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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