> Christoph Hormann's Earth renditions, apparently done with mesh2s 
> converted to isosurfaces (http://earth.imagico.de/technical.html) made 
> me drool instantly... and as he had done an include called "IsoCSG", I 
> wonder whether a mesh2 to isosurface conversion feature was contained 
> therein. But when I looked over the documentation of version 0.7, I 
> found no hint about how to do this. Could it be that only a version not 
> yet released contains this - or do I have to do it an entirely different 
> way! But there MUST be some way to convert mesh2s into isosurfaces...

  Sorry for asking, but for what possible reason would one want to
convert a mesh into an isosurface? A conversion to the other direction
would make sense and, in fact, be really useful (at least in terms of
rendering speed). However, converting a mesh to an isosurface seems to
be completely backwards. Why would one want to do that?

  (One could perhaps argue that you can apply any kinds of transformations
to an isosurface. However, you can do that to a mesh too, although it
requires more indirect means. If you put your vertices and normal vectors
in arrays and then create the vertex and normal vectors of the mesh from
those arrays, you can apply any transformations you want to those vertices
in the arrays before creating the mesh, thus achieving free transformations.
While not absolutely trivial, it's not that hard either.)

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                                                          - Warp

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