POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Holes in SuperEllipsoids : Re: Holes in SuperEllipsoids Server Time
7 Aug 2024 19:26:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Holes in SuperEllipsoids  
From: Ken
Date: 11 Jul 2001 08:50:23
Message: <3B4C4B87.37BBE2EF@pacbell.net>
Tim Attwood wrote:
> 
> > The scene he posted didn't use any triangles, just a CSG difference with
> > two superellipsoids. This is probably an error in the solving method,
> > maybe some intersections are not being found.
> 
> I meant that... (some internal POV tesselation error).

Except in a couple of cases (like HF's and bicubic patches) POV-Ray
does not do internal tesselation. All of POV-Ray's primitives are
mathematical constructs and are not internally tesselated. Which is
also true of the superellipsoid object.

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