"Meothuru" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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> Is there a macro or tool avaiable for POV-ray, wich
> allows to deform figures(Mesh, ISO's(?)) just like
> the "lattice"-function" in Blender ?
>

There's nothing 'just like' the 'lattice' function which, if I understand 
correctly allows you to model a lattice of points, parent it to an object 
and then pull the points of the lattice around in 3D space to deform the 
object. This does seem to be a very modeller oriented type of function.

OTOH there are various approaches that can be used to deform stuff in 
POV-Ray. Whether any will do what you want depends on the type of 
deformations you need to achieve. I see a couple of approaches have already 
been suggested. Another that I ran across recently (but didn't try out yet) 
is Chris Colefax's object bender which can apparently "Bend or twist any 
POV-Ray object, with complete control over bend direction and other options" 
(see http://www.geocities.com/ccolefax/#IncludeFiles).

Regards,
Chris B.

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