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On 10-10-2017 14:59, clipka wrote:
> 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`.
>
Hmmm... All that has been provided for in my case (including what Bald
Eagle suggested). Still, this does not answer that cryptic note by Sam
back in 2007. As far as I know, we already did use proper mesh2, so what
does he mean?
--
Thomas
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