Ok; very good then. I know someone has already made something of this sort  
here...and I have seen a number of c# versions.

My snow/icicle macro already uses trace and inside, but I was quite  
unaware that a point was a valid parameter of the inside method; I thought  
that it only accepted objects. I guess pov has overloads too. ;)

I have noticed a pattern...almost everything I want to do with a computer  
involves complicated stuff that hasn't been implemented yet lol! ;)

Ian

On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:07:45 -0500, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

> [GDS|Entropy] <gdsHYentropyAThotmailDTcom> wrote:
>> 2) Adaptively convert to mesh object (triangle or quadrangle or whatever
>> gives the best results at the best time based on geometry)
>
>   Tesselation is a hard problem. Blobs are relatively easy to tesselate
> (because they are finite and don't contain hard edges), but the  
> tesselation
> algorithm itself is non-trivial. The so-called marching triangles  
> algorithm
> is probably the best one, so you might search for that (but, as said, be
> aware that it's a complicated algorithm). In your case the algorithm will
> have to be implemented in POV-Ray SDL.
>
>   You can use the inside() function to determine if a point is inside or
> outside an object (eg. your blob) and the trace() function to find the
> surface. These can probably be used in the tesselation algorithm.
>


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