On 1/27/2016 11:01 PM, William F Pokorny wrote:
> Perhaps, Mike, I'm missing what you mean by your "wish" for 2d to 3d
> extrusion, but in addition to the height field technique Stephen
> mentions(1), Inkscape itself has a POV-Ray export to POV-Ray's 3d prism
> object. The export worked OK(2) a couple years ago when I tried it and I
> know Thomas has worked with it too for his Gancaloon project.
>
> Maybe though, you want specifically a 2d to 3d-closed mesh on the fly?
>
> Bill P.
>
> (1) - Something similar to height_fields can be done with isosurfaces too.
>
> (2) - I did see an issue with something like redundant points, which
> caused POV-Ray no issue, but did trip up another program in which I
> tried to use the bezier spline output.


Oh, I didn't know that about InkScape. I will have to try it out.


Mike

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