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From: Le Forgeron
Date: 20 Mar 2010 17:08:09
Message: <4ba53939$1@news.povray.org>

Le 20/03/2010 18:41, Hugo nous fit lire :
> On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:41:15 -0300, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> 
>>   The marching cubes algorithm also has a negative fame because some
>> idiot
>> patented it on the US. (The patent might be expired by now.)
>>
> 
> Yes, the marching cubes patent expired in 2005.
> 
That's a good news. I had patches of 3.1g which used marching cube to
tesselate solid object into mesh... with due restriction about import in
US zone.

Have you any accurate data (such as exact expiry date of marching cube ?)
(Gif was also troublesome)

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