POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : wireframe rendering : Re: wireframe rendering Server Time
5 Nov 2024 03:18:29 EST (-0500)
  Re: wireframe rendering  
From: Ken
Date: 5 Jul 2002 21:37:19
Message: <3D2649C1.4208BAFE@pacbell.net>
Warp wrote:
> 
> Arthur Flint <mra### [at] chesapeakenet> wrote:
> > There is no switch, no option, no setting that
> > is native to POVRay that displays a wireframe version of
> > your scene. :(
> 
>   That's because there exist no concept of "wireframe" in a raytracer.
> A wireframe needs essentially edges, and there are no edges in smooth
> surfaces.
>   A raytracer handles mathematical surfaces, not polygons. An object made of
> polygons can be represented as "wireframe" (by drawing a line for each edge
> of the polygon); that's because an object made of polygons has edges. But
> POV-Ray doesn't use polygons to represent objects.

And besides all that, POV-Ray has no internal support for wire frame views
of objects.

-- 
Ken Tyler :)


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