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27 Apr 2024 12:36:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Moire patterns when trying to create isosurface sphere  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 7 Jan 2019 02:40:03
Message: <5c330253$1@news.povray.org>
On 6-1-2019 19:43, jr wrote:
> hi,
> 
> "Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> "jr" <cre### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>>> with 'polarity on'
>> ??
>> What's that? I must have missed a new feature(?) somehow...
> 
> looks like you did.  :-)  the last paragraph in section "3.5.1.1.6 Isosurface"
> in the 3.8 docs reads:
> 
> By default, the inside of an isosurface is defined as the set of all points
> inside the contained_by shape where the function values are below the threshold.
> New in version 3.8 this can be changed via the polarity keyword. Specifying a
> positive setting or on will instead cause function values above the threshold to
> be considered inside. Specifying a negative setting or off will give the default
> behavior.
> 

Interesting. I missed that too. Going to play right now as I am working 
on an isosurface...

-- 
Thomas


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