On 06.04.2024 16:47, Kenneth wrote:

> an interim step to the POV-ray 3-D printing problem... waiting for some clever
> fellow to take the image-slices and instead create a triangle mesh (and .stl
> file) *directly* from the image pixels.

This may be an interesting idea, assuming I can understand that format 
(do I understand it right that you printer requires some STL, and that's 
that STL I'm reading about at 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STL_(file_format) ?). Sounds like they 
have a text version of it.

The problem I see right now is that we have different number of "outline 
pixels" at every section. Other than that, idea of slicing any object 
into set of planar sections, then reconstructing from this looks brutal 
;-) But the problem is, the number of control points change between 
sections (sometimes they completely disappear), and I don't see a way to 
figure out how to deal with it. But well, it looks like an interesting 
idea to think of in background process.

Ilyich the Toad
https://dnyarri.github.io/

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