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  Re: How do you convert POV-Ray CSG shapes into other 3D formats?  
From: Warp
Date: 9 Feb 2010 10:35:06
Message: <4b7180aa@news.povray.org>
scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> I started to implement it in POV from some paper, but when different parts 
> of the mesh needed to join back up again it never worked properly.  I 
> couldn't figure out from the paper how to fix this, so gave up.  Attached is 
> about as good as I got meshing a sphere using the algorithm (the next few 
> steps after this started to screw up big time).

  That indeed demonstrates (some of) the strengths of the marching triangles
algorithm: There are no thin triangles, and all the triangles are distributed
rather evenly.

  It would be pretty useful if someone could get it to work fully.

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                                                          - Warp


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