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12 May 2024 13:38:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Tesselation and mesh data extraction patches  
From: ingo
Date: 14 Dec 2000 14:12:50
Message: <Xns900AC79C3seed7@povray.org>
Reading all this with interest, don't understand all of it, so if I write 
nonsense, say so and I'll shut up.

Chris Huff wrote:
>BTW, do you think there is a need for more insideness-testing methods? 
>Not all meshes will work perfectly with a single test, sending 3 rays at 
>right angles(or more rays in various directions) would work better in 
>some cases.

When you tesselate a mesh from a declared object, can't you use this 
object to get the insideness information (all intersections?) from and 
apply it to the mesh?

Ingo

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