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.

Revolution surface screenshot

Posted by nikos on June 3rd, 2008 | in Actionscript, Applications, Experiements, Flash, Papervision3D |


3 Responses to “Revolution surface”

  1. June 11th, 2008 at 11:24 am

    Piergiorgio Niero said:

    really impressive :D
    are you going to share source too? it would be great!
    byez

  2. June 11th, 2008 at 11:39 am

    nikos said:

    yeah, I will do..it just needs a bit of cleaning and commenting first ;)

    cheers
    nikos

  3. June 17th, 2008 at 8:59 am

    George Profenza said:

    Realy nice stuff. Lathe would be a nice addition to Papervision. How did you get the curves so smooth ? It seems you added more ‘in-between’ points.



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