Re: Superellisoid
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- Subject: [mg53724] Re: Superellisoid
- From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 05:03:22 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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Hi, Mathematica's ContourPlot3D`ContourPlot3D[] function will gnerate a polygonization of your surface. Anyway this function has serious bugs and you should use MVContourPlot3D[] form MathGL3d http://phong.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~kuska/mathgl3dv3/ Regards Jens "Damon LePleur" <nunthee at gak.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:cst5k0$k1b$1 at smc.vnet.net... > Thanks for reading this. I'm a graphic artist I'm trying to get a > functional notebook for exporting a superellipsoid object out to a > ..dxf format. I can produce the object in Pov-Ray and paste it into my > work as a graphic file but I would like to be able to manipulate it > directly in a 'manageable' program such as make use of .obj and .dxf > files. > > the pov source code says: > > * Superellipsoids are defined by the implicit equation > * > * f(x,y,z) = (|x|^(2/e) + |y|^(2/e))^(e/n) + |z|^(2/n) - 1 > * > * Where e is the east/west exponent and n is the north/south > exponent. > > what that means I can't imagine, the objects in Pov are pre-computed > and it's always been nice to just be able to type the code as : > > superellipsoid {<3, 3> pigment { Red } scale 2} > > hit 'render' and out it pops. this makes the shape I desire as at > > http://mywebpages.comcast.net/sdbennett/stuff/SUPELLPSoid_Example.jpg > > I can then duplicate and manipulate the object, but POV lacks a lot of > the options I like now in other programs such as Bryce and Cinema 4D, > so I want this object. > > Can someone help? My wife has a copy of Mathematica at Vanderbilt but > I'm not able to really fiddle with it much and that's all I can do is > fiddle, I'm not any good with math at all, I just need this 'simple' > object. > > Thanks in advance for your help, I have finally managed to export > objects to .dxf after what took forever for me to figure out the > program. Thanks again I appreciate and admire your expertise. > > Sincerely, > > Steve Bennett > www.karmastorm.com > sdbennett at comcast.not >
