Arlo J wrote:

> Hugo Asm wrote:
> 
>> Wow, that's an interesting shape! Rarely do I see one that I haven't seen
>> before, but this one is new and beautiful too.
> 
> 
> Yeah, it's one of those models that would be cool to be able to 
> translate into the real world.
> 
> Though I doubt that is doing to be possible any time soon. :)

The mesh for this shape is "closed", so it should actually be possible
to print it out in the "real world" with a 3D printing machine.
Have a look at these pages:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22rapid+prototyping%22+%223d+printing%22


I even made some POV-Ray macros once that output a mesh in the STL
file format, which is often used for such printing. Here's more about
that format:

http://www.gom.com/pub/specifications/stl/stl-en.pdf
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ug/sif/STL.shtml


It shouldn't be difficult to modify the the NSSS macros so that they
are able to write meshes in STL format too.

But the texture's are another problem...

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Tor Olav
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