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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Revolution surface

A revolution surface (or surface of revolution) is a surface created by rotating a curve lying on some plane around a straight line (the axis of rotation) that lies on the same plane.

Read more on wikipedia.

I created a flash tool in Papervision, that allows you to draw a Hermite curve out of a number of nodes and control anchors. This curve then gets rotated around the y axis to create a revolution surface.