John VanSickle wrote:
> This is not a reflective sphere over a checkered plane.
> 
> It is a cube, subdivided five times using the Catmull-Clark subdivision 
> scheme.  There are 6144 faces in the resulting polygon mesh, which are 
> rendered as 12288 triangles in POV-Ray.

Nice RSCOCP!

> I'm rewriting my surface subdivision macros to use the Catmull-Clark 
> scheme because I am updating my modeler to use faces with more than four 
> vertices.  Because the number of faces in the original mesh can vary 
> quite a bit, the macros have to be completely rewritten from the ground 
> up, and as you can see from this pic, I don't have normal interpolation 
> implemented yet.  I also don't have texture mapping turned on, either.
> 
> When these are working and I've written the .INC file export in my 
> modeler to match it, the new version (v1.7, which also supports .OBJ 
> file import) will be released, and then I'll start work on a posing and 
> key-framing and all that.

I will be looking forward to this!

Sam

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