"Shay" <sah### [at] simcopartscom> wrote in message 
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> Jeremy M. Praay wrote:
>>
>> To back up a little bit, I'm often annoyed by the artifacts that
>> come as a result of the "smooth triangle" problem.
>
> http://www.slimeland.com/slimepov/
>

Thanks for that.  When I brought up the problem awhile ago (in the 
p.tools.poser ng), I had heard that Christophe Bouffartigue had a fix once, 
but I couldn't find any mention of it in any of the recent compilations.

I wonder why Slime's patch for the smooth triangle (and shadow-line 
artifact) problem never made it into MegaPov.  But I'm guessing it's the 
fact that "there is no solution that works in every case".

I tried the new version of PoseRay, and did surface subdivision on the 
Victoria 3 model, and it seemed to work for me.  I'm sure there are still 
some artifacts, but I guess it becomes a question of degree at that point, 
and if you have enough RAM (and patience), you could always subdivide it 
more.  IMHO, that is an awesome feature to have.  It's makes a world of 
difference for POV-Ray.  (Though I have to say that it took me a few minutes 
to figure out how to get it to work.)

I still think it would be waaay cool to be able to turn a mesh into 
isosurfaces, though.  I guess I'll have to get smarter.

-- 
Jeremy
www.beantoad.com

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