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31 Jul 2024 12:15:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Mesh Subdivision?  
From: Jesse Connell
Date: 20 Aug 2007 15:23:30
Message: <46c9ea32$1@news.povray.org>
John VanSickle wrote:
> Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
>> Jesse Connell wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>> What (I think) I'd like to do is split the elements of my mesh into many
>>> more elements and smooth it out. I've found a few sets of macros and
>>> things for doing this, like the "New Surface Subdivision Suite" (
>>> http://www.geocities.com/evilsnack/nsss.htm ) and "POV-Ray with
>>> Subdivision". They all seem to be unmaintained, though, or at least very
>>> out of date.
>>
>> Last time I tried the NSSS macros they worked very well, so I don't
>> think that the suite needs much maintenance at the moment.
> 
> Maintenance happens when the maintainer is told there is a bug.  That 
> hasn't happened in a while (almost three years), so there's been no need 
> for updates.
> 
> At the moment I am upgrading my modeler to use polygons with more than 
> four sides, and I'm rewriting my macro suite to go with it.  There will 
> be an appropriate announcement when it's ready to be seen in public.
> 
> Regards,
> John

I've ended up putting my meshes through the NSSS macros, and they're 
working great for me. Thanks for quelling my fears about maintenance; it 
looks like I spoke too soon in my first post.

Jesse


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