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  Re: Box blob object?  
From: clipka
Date: 18 Aug 2017 13:58:14
Message: <59972ab6$1@news.povray.org>
Am 16.08.2017 um 01:15 schrieb Mr:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> Am 10.08.2017 um 15:15 schrieb bgimeno:
>>>
>>> Well, at the moment I can't see any exit to the limits that the syntax
>>> of blob in pov-ray imposes. I have not achieved anything acceptable,
>>> except a certain resentment against those sticky forms.
>>
>> POV-Ray's blobs are indeed currently too limited to do that job. You'd
>> need to resort to isosurfaces for that purpose.
> 
> Except an isosurface cube probably won't merge with a blob yet, will it?

No, but the other way round is now possible: A blob can be turned into a
`potential` pattern, a pattern can be turned into a function, and a
function can be combined with other isosurface functions such as that of
a "blob box" isosurface.


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