Folks,

Just wanted to point you at this news item:

  http://www.povray.org/news/index.php#324

"Former POV-Ray developer and team coordinator Chris Young has been
working with 3D printing in recent times and wanted to be able to
convert a POV-Ray scene into something that he could touch & feel.
This isn't as easy as it sounds since POV-Ray works with solids but
consumer 3D printers expect triangle meshes.

He has written a blog post explaining the issue and how he approached
it, and another interesting and quite detailed post explaining the
process he used to get from .POV to .STL.

Chris has made his pov2mesh code available on GitHub under the
Creative Commons license."

Links:

http://graphics.cyborg5.com/2016/10/29/3-d-printing-a-pov-ray-model/
http://graphics.cyborg5.com/2016/10/29/converting-pov-ray-shapes-to-triangle-mesh-for-3-d-printing/
https://github.com/cyborg5/pov2mesh

-- Chris

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