POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Object pattern and meshes: no go?: Re: Object pattern and meshes: no go?

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From: clipka
Date: 10 Oct 2017 08:59:02
Message: <59dcc416$1@news.povray.org>

Am 10.10.2017 um 09:31 schrieb Thomas de Groot:
> Struggling with object patterns (using meshes) I came across the
> following comment by Sam Benge in 2007 for his edge_pigment02.inc macro.
> 
> [quote]
> And of course you can never use this with meshes. That is, not until
> somebody figures out how to convince POV into turning a mesh into a
> bona-fide object pattern...
> [/quote]
> 
> Getting strange results myself, I wonder if this is still true for the
> current versions of POV-Ray? Are meshes (still) unsuited for use with
> object patterns?

Meshes should be fine _if_ they are properly closed _and_ have a
(non-zero) `inside_vector`.

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