POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : convert isosurfaces to mesh : Re: convert isosurfaces to mesh Server Time
4 Aug 2024 00:23:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: convert isosurfaces to mesh  
From: Sebastian H 
Date: 10 Sep 2003 12:27:30
Message: <3f5f50f2$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> None <Non### [at] onca> wrote:
> 
>>The difficulty with isosurfaces is that they are functions and don't 
>>necessarily present an actual contiguous surface.  A tessellation routine 
>>that can handle any isosurface function would be very difficult, next to 
>>impossible.
> 
> 
>   Actually tesselating a contiguous and derivable (read: smooth) isosurface
> (which most are) is perfectly possible and not even too difficult. An
> algorithm like the marching triangles is perfectly suitable.
> 

Has anyone written a programm that does this for isosurfaces written in 
povray syntax?

Sebastian H.


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