Samuel Benge wrote:
> While we're talking about it, please, please, please, add support for 
> subdivision of meshes!
> 
> Some of us are just no good at the complex routines required to smooth 
> meshes ourselves. It would be *much* easier if we could just put some 
> triangles together and apply subdivision to it.
> 
> Xiaobin Wu and Jianhua Fan's POV-Sub patch is almost perfect. You can 
> apply smoothness without subdivision if you want, it works with 
> uv_mapping, it parses quickly, and would just make my life easier all 
> the way around if it was part of the official version of POV. Or at 
> least part of Mega-Pov (subdivision+aoi pigment would be great together).
> 
> There are a couple of bugs with the program, however. I can post the bug 
> reports over in p.u.patches, if anyone is interested.
> 
> So how about it?
> 
> Sam


in my opinion, that antithetic to the whole POV mindset.  When I create 
a triangle mesh in POV, I want it to be exactly what I describe.   Since 
POV doesn't natively allow editing of meshes except as text, I don't 
want the rendering engine changing my 300 triangle mesh into a 6000 
triangle mesh.

Rendering and editing are 2 different processes, IMHO.

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Bryan Valencia

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