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  Re: Finding coord of edge of object (trace func?)  
From: Warp
Date: 14 May 2001 07:07:37
Message: <3affbc79@news.povray.org>
Chris Colefax <chr### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
: To convert arbitrary objects to a mesh (tessellation) your best bet is
: probably Ron's trace function - I believe a macro was created to do this
: (TriScan).  Check the POV Links for a download...

  I have made a tesselation patch but its development has been frozen
because of an annoying bug which seems impossible to overcome in any
rational way.
  It's also a bit outdated as it's built over MegaPov 0.6a source.

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~warp/TesselationPatch/

-- 
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -


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