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  Re: Bitmap To Prism Utility (Work In Progress)  
From: Paolo Gibellini
Date: 19 Dec 2016 03:46:20
Message: <58579e5c$1@news.povray.org>
Dave Blandston wrote on 18/12/2016 15:36:
> Hello,
>
> I have posted a Bitmap to Prism conversion utility WIP in the binaries.utilities
> section. Everything is done except the actual control point generation (the hard
> part).
>
> This image shows a bitmap image being processed. In this picture, the red pixels
> indicate the shape that will be converted to a prism object. The contrasting
> cyan dots just show which pixels have been identified as the shape to be
> converted and prove that everything is working up to this point in the project.
> The important output from this program will be a text file containing prism
> control points.
>
> I'm stymied regarding the process of automatically generating control points for
> cubic_spline prisms. So if anyone has any suggestions regarding that process
> please let me know.
>
> Regards,
> Dave Blandston
>

A prism version of a bump-map?
Seems interesting,
    Paolo


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