POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: 3.71 patch for binary "mesh3" format: Re: 3.71 patch for binary "mesh3" format

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : 3.71 patch for binary "mesh3" format : Re: 3.71 patch for binary "mesh3" format		Server Time 27 Apr 2024 06:43:23 EDT (-0400)

From: Stephen
Date: 21 Aug 2017 17:07:00
Message: <599b4b74$1@news.povray.org>

On 21/08/2017 21:30, Sven Littkowski wrote:
> On 21.08.2017 10:02, Bald Eagle wrote:
>> "There are two options for output, mesh2 and mesh3. mesh2 is povray's format.
>> It's completely ASCII based and hella slow and bloated. mesh3 is a hacked binary
>> format that is orders of magnitude faster and more compact. However mesh3 can
>> only be used with a patched version of povray 3.7.1. The patch is included in
>> vtk2pov patch directory."
>>
>> https://github.com/burlen/vtk2pov
>>
>> VTK:  http://www.vtk.org/
>>
>>
> And how to create MESH3 meshes?
> Instructions needed.
> 

Why would you want to if only the patched version can use them?


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Regards
     Stephen

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