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26 Jun 2024 15:37:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Binary meshes?  
From: clipka
Date: 22 Jun 2015 12:51:11
Message: <55883cff@news.povray.org>
Am 22.06.2015 um 15:16 schrieb Mr:

> Maybe adding  support for an existing library like Alembic format would solve
> this request and some others?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alembic_%28Computer_Graphics%29

Nope. We need to transform it into a POV-Ray specific internal 
representation anyway.

> or micro poly tesselation and displacement at rendertime, renderman style?

I don't think this will fly; there are rendering algorithms where micro 
tesselation fits in easily, but raytracing isn't one of them.


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