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From: Warp
Date: 20 Mar 2010 17:53:45
Message: <4ba543e9@news.povray.org>

Le_Forgeron <jgr### [at] freefr> wrote:
> 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.

  I really think we should concentrate on the marching triangles algorithm
and forget about marching cubes. The latter, bluntly put, outright sucks as
a tesselation algorithm. The results are horrid.

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                                                          - Warp

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