OSL
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2D Polar Coordinates
Figure 3 illustrates how the location of a point, within a polar coordinate system, is
specified by distance (
Relative to the center of the 1 x 1 polygon, shown in figure 3, the coordinates of
the hilited box are,
Listing 1
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Drawing CurvesThe School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St.Andrews, Scotland maintains a web site of "Famous Curves". Many of the curves are defined by formula that require the use of polar coordinates. For example, figure 4 uses the polar description of a curve called the "Trisectrix of Maclaurin"
Listing 2 provides the code for the shader that produced the pattern shown above. |
Listing 2 - maclaurin.osl
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