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10 Aug 2024 09:19:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: SSS - just an idea  
From: Nieminen Juha
Date: 19 Jan 2000 04:36:03
Message: <38858583@news.povray.org>
Remco de Korte <rem### [at] xs4allnl> wrote:
: I think the subdivision routine needs the info ordered in another way
: then as it is in a simple mesh: one point-list with the coordinates of
: all the used points (which eliminated duplicate points) and a
: triangle-list with for each triangle three pointers to the point-list.

  AFAIK povray internally converts meshes to this format.

  And AFAIK the mesh2 format of megapov is just a kind of "shortcut" to this
format.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/


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