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10 Aug 2024 09:14:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: SSS - just an idea  
From: Nathan Kopp
Date: 20 Jan 2000 23:33:54
Message: <3887e1b2@news.povray.org>
Nieminen Juha <war### [at] punarastascstutfi> wrote ...
> 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.

True.

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

True, mesh2 is exactly this format.

-Nathan


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