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    Re: My second architecture project —Steve Bliss
   (...) Hmm. How would a difference operation be useful for a spiral staircase? LDScript would have been useful for doing the risers. The angle is a function of Y, and LDScript has looping. That handrail would have been a pain in DAT-world, no matter (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: My second architecture project —Bram Lambrecht
   (...) Each riser is a circular segment--the difference of a donut (difference of two cylinders) and a couple rectangles oriented to result in a pie segment. (...) Which is how I did it in POV-Ray :) (...) The handrail was a pain to do in POV-Ray (...) (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: My second architecture project —Steve Bliss
   (...) Duh. Of course. Doesn't POV-Ray have some kind of sweep/turn function, so you could take a rectangle (one side of pie slice) and turn it through a specified angle to generate the riser? Steve (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: My second architecture project —Bram Lambrecht
   (...) Maybe...I'm not that fluent in POV-ray... --Bram (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 

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