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From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 27 Sep 2002 04:57:02
Message: <3D941D5D.F8AEF070@gmx.de>

ABX wrote:
> 
> Partially. It decreases number of floats but not eliminates it. So while mesh
> can be as big as memory, iso_mesh can be as big as floats stored as contants
> in virtual machine.

That's what i assumed.

There are probably more useful approaches generating an isosurface
function based on mesh data anyway, see for example:

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/geometry/implicit/modeling.html

Christoph

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