When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ace Team's colossal geometry nightmare The Eternal Cylinder is rolling onto the Epic Games Store ...

gives formula to show if a point is inside a cylinder. It is based on finding a rotation that maps the cylinder axis onto a cartesian axis, and then calculate the distance from the axis.

I've started working a personal program to design shapes with tubing (and produce G-code for a CNC tubing cutter I'm going to build). It's been roughly 20 years since I was last in a vector geometry ...