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From: pcb@cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Cones and Cylinders
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Date: 3 Oct 90 21:39:43 GMT
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Suppose I am modeling cones and cylinders algebraically and parametrically.
How can I draw these?  I do not want to do ray tracing.  Is there a common
technique(s) that will rendering these things without having to make a
zillion polygons?

A lot of algorithms require verticies and edges which are transformed and
projected to 2d and then drawn.  Well I have no real edges...

Any ideas?  or references?


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