POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Curved Triangles : Re: Curved Triangles Server Time
6 Aug 2024 08:13:16 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Curved Triangles  
From: Ben Chambers
Date: 16 Apr 2002 13:54:36
Message: <3cbc655c@news.povray.org>
Hugo wrote:

> It probably works - except I have to raise the array sizes vlist and
> nlist? - but even with lowest LOD setting the amount of triangles are
> huge. I have a mesh2 with just 600 faces, but when I "curve" 40 of
> them, the result is over 22000 triangles. Needless to say, 600 faces
> will eat too much memory.

IIRC, the number of faces is something like LOD^2.  What LOD did you 
use?  I find that 5-10 is usually enough, especially with small 
triangles.

I'd like to patch it into POV-Ray itself, for more efficient memory 
usage, but that will take me a while.

...Chambers


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