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7 Oct 2025 04:56:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Impossible stl file conversion!  
From: Ilya Razmanov
Date: 23 Sep 2025 13:17:45
Message: <68d2d639$1@news.povray.org>
On 23.09.2025 20:06, Kenneth wrote:

> First and foremost, POV-ray is a great raytracing RENDERER. As B.E. mentioned,
> there are so MANY STL models out there, that could be beautifully rendered by us
> as-is (even if the mesh conversion retained only the un-smoothed
> flat-faceted-triangles); or as part of a CSG construction (with the addition of
> an inside vector to the converted mesh).

STL models, by their nature, must have all sides defined (which makes 
STLs exported by my img2mesh twice as big as POVs, since POVs only have 
a top side). So I guess inside vector may be any.

-- 
Ilyich the Toad
https://dnyarri.github.io/


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