POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: How do you convert POV-Ray CSG shapes into other 3D formats?: Re: How do you convert POV-Ray CSG shapes into other 3D formats?

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : How do you convert POV-Ray CSG shapes into other 3D formats? : Re: How do you convert POV-Ray CSG shapes into other 3D formats?		Server Time 30 Jul 2024 02:28:43 EDT (-0400)

From: Alain
Date: 3 Feb 2010 16:37:00
Message: <4b69ec7c$1@news.povray.org>


> Hi everyone,
>
> Is there a way to convert POV-Ray's internal representation of a 3D
> shape (i.e. one constructed using CSG) into another 3D format - perhaps
> mesh or mesh2?
>
> Would it possible to write a POV-Ray macro to scan the surface of an
> object and create mesh2 type co-ordinates (would the trace function be
> able to do this?)
>
> I'm just thinking it would be nice to be able to easily convert POV-Ray
> models to other formats :-)
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Reuben
> reu### [at] pearsecouk

You are not the first one to think of that.
There are macros that can convert most objects into a mesh equivalent.
The most notable is one to convert an isosurface into a mesh.


Alain

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