In article <3d2b4e76@news.povray.org>,
 "Majukatur" <maj### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

> Well, this is an idea that I had, is about the meshes, I was thinking, the
> smooth triangle have a simulated normal that seems to be smooth, but it

> smooth_triangle really smoothed?, if the syntax of the smooth_triangle is
> conserved we can use the new shape with old mesh objects without problem,
> but with better quality.

There have been a couple people working on macros to produce "curved" 
smooth triangles. The only good way to do that seems to be to divide 
each triangle into more triangles on a curved surface...trying to solve 
directly for the surface would probably be too slow for a mesh with a 
fair number of triangles. Their macros are probably in the scene file 
groups on this server. You might also want to look for information on 
subdivision surfaces.

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Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom>
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