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Re: Mapping on Objekts... [message #8517 is a reply to message #8512] Thu, 20 March 1997 00:00 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
J.D. Smith is currently offline  J.D. Smith
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Registered: August 1996
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David Fanning wrote:
>
> JD Smith <jdsmith@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu> gives us a nice piece of
> code for rendering an image on a cylinder, and for that I am extremely
> grateful. I just have one question: What does he mean when he says he broke
> the cylinder up into sections "like the outer crust on slices of
> cheesecake"!?
>
> I've been pondering this for over an hour now and I am no closer
> to enlightenment. :-)

David:

View of (cylindrical) cheesecake from above (sliced into N=8
pieces):
___
Outer Crust----->/ \
| |
\ ___ /


Perhaps they don't make New York-style Cheesecake in Colorado?


I hear they can be Fed Ex'd for pittance.


JD
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