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From: Stephen
Date: 10 Jan 2018 06:07:49
Message: <5a55f405$1@news.povray.org>
On 10/01/2018 08:24, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> On 9-1-2018 16:07, Bald Eagle wrote:
>> Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
>>> On 5-1-2018 17:38, Norbert Kern wrote:
>>
>>>> By the way - Thomas - what software can be used to retriangulate an 
>>>> existing
>>>> mesh?
>>
>>
>>> Not sure what retriangulate means really, but I would think of Poseray.
>>
>> I came across a bunch of programs, macros, and tools while I was 
>> looking into
>> Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay triangulations, and optimizing convex 
>> hulls.
>>
>> I might start with Voro++ and see what
>> http://paulbourke.net/papers/triangulate/
>> has to offer.
>>
>> I'm sure there are plenty of others as well.
>>
>>
>>
> 
> I see. In my world that is called subdivision. ;-)
> 

And I took it to be the other way around.

> As I said, Poseray has always done an excellent job for me when it came 
> to further subdivide an existing mesh. I prefer to do it however, within 
> the program that created the mesh in the first place (i.e. Silo for me) 
> and at the end of the modelling process, otherwise the mesh becomes too 
> heavy to work with.
> 

True, subdivision is one of the last things to do.

-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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