I need some help and I've noticed that your not conforming to the rather dazzling array of different ways of doing things with graphics, so I'm hoping that your still in the process of pulling out the stuff I need.
Ok, for starters, how do I apply a intersection operator over the partial results of a for loop?
it should create a smoothish line thing but looking at the csg tree, it doesn't work like that.
intersection(){
for(z = [0:5]){
multmatrix (m =[
[1,0,0,z/5],
[0,1,0,0],
[0,0,1,z],
[0,0,0,1]
]){
sphere(r = 1);
}}}
Also, the [3,n] in the zero indexed matrix column doesn't perform shearing like I expected. AFAIK it doesn't do anything.
My real goal is I have a cylinder object, and I want to maintain the bottom radius and gradually pinch the x axis together into a parabolic smooth shape, and elongate the y axis. The purpose is to make a hinge attached to a cylinder.
Thanks, and here is to hoping I'm not too off my rocker!
Lawrence
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