POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : convert isosurfaces to mesh : Re: convert isosurfaces to mesh Server Time
4 Aug 2024 00:18:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: convert isosurfaces to mesh  
From: None
Date: 9 Sep 2003 14:10:04
Message: <Xns93F1901F0796None@204.213.191.226>
"JC (Exether)" <no### [at] spamfr> wrote in news:3f5e1162$1@news.povray.org:

> I've been looking around and couldn't find any tool to 'convert' an 
> isosurface to a mesh. Does anyone have this kind of tool (preferably 
> povray script) handy ? Otherwise I'll have to write it myself, but I 
> suspect it will take some time, so if I can avoid it ...  :-)

The difficulty with isosurfaces is that they are functions and don't 
necessarily present an actual contiguous surface.  A tessellation routine 
that can handle any isosurface function would be very difficult, next to 
impossible.


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