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30 Jun 2024 13:13:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Subdivision surfaces  
From: stbenge
Date: 22 Jun 2010 17:25:01
Message: <4c212a2d$1@news.povray.org>
clipka wrote:
> Am 22.06.2010 20:17, schrieb stbenge:
> 
>> Would anyone apart from SharkD and myself like to see subdivision
>> surfaces added to 3.7? POV-Sub's implementation* was perfect and easy to
>> use. I replied to SharkD's feature request over at bugs.povray.org and
>> listed some reasons explaining the benefits of this feature:
> 
> While I do agree that it seems to be an interesting feature, I don't 
> think that it can be considered just a very small change; plus, the 
> author's copyright statement seems to be problematic regarding the 
> current plans to move POV-Ray to a GPL licensing scheme.
> 
> All in all I don't see it making its way into the 3.7 release. Some 
> later version... maybe.

Perhaps I will contact the authors about updating the patch for 3.7. Do 
you foresee any major code changes which would keep the patch from 
working with future versions? Could work start with the POV's source as 
it is now? Of course the authors might not want to update their code, 
but I can hope :)


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