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[[Category:Objects]]
[[Category:Infinite Solid Primitives]]
{{#indexentry:quadric, keyword}}
{{#indexentry:keyword, quadric}}

The <code>quadric</code> object can produce shapes like paraboloids (dish
shapes) and hyperboloids (saddle or hourglass shapes). It can also produce
ellipsoids, spheres, cones, and cylinders but you should use the <code>
sphere</code>, <code>cone</code>, and <code>cylinder</code> objects built
into POV-Ray because they are faster than the quadric version.
Note: Do not confuse "quaDRic" with
"quaRTic". A quadric is a 2nd order polynomial while a quartic
is 4th order.

Quadrics render much
faster and are less error-prone but produce less complex objects. The syntax
is:
<pre>
QUADRIC:
quadric {
<A,B,C>,<D,E,F>,<G,H,I>,J
[OBJECT_MODIFIERS...]
}
</pre>

Although the syntax actually will parse 3 vector expressions followed by a
float, we traditionally have written the syntax as above where <code>
A</code> through <code>J</code> are float expressions. These 10
float that define a surface of x, y, z points which satisfy the equation A x2
+ B y2 + C z2 + D xy + E xz + F yz + G x + H y + I z + J = 0

Different values of <code>A, B, C, ... J</code> will give
different shapes. If you take any three dimensional point and use its x, y
and z coordinates in the above equation the answer will be 0 if the point is
on the surface of the object. The answer will be negative if the point is
inside the object and positive if the point is outside the object. Here are
some examples:

<table SUMMARY="Some quartic shapes" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="30%">X2 + Y2 + Z2 - 1 = 0</td>

<td width="70%">Sphere</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>X2 + Y2 - 1 = 0</td>

<td>Infinite cylinder along the Z axis</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>X2 + Y2 - Z2 = 0</td>

<td>Infinite cone along the Z axis</td>
</tr>
</table>

The easiest way to use these shapes is to include the standard file <code>
shapes.inc</code> into your program. It contains several pre-defined quadrics
and you can transform these pre-defined shapes (using translate, rotate and
scale) into the ones you want. For a complete list, see the file <code>
shapes.inc</code>.

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