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From: Luc H
Subject: Pov 2 Mesh
Date: 21 Oct 2002 11:50:34
Message: <3db4224a$1@news.povray.org>

Hello

I'd like to convert pov objects to mesh format.
Is there a way to do that with FREE softs ?

Thenks for any response.
 Luc H.

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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: Pov 2 Mesh
Date: 21 Oct 2002 11:57:07
Message: <3DB423D3.3887DD3E@gmx.de>

Luc H wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I'd like to convert pov objects to mesh format.
> Is there a way to do that with FREE softs ?

There is no way converting povray shapes into a mesh, neither with free
not with 10000$ software, simply because you can't convert apples into
peaches.

You can of course approximate the shape using a tesselation method.  There
is a patch for this purpose available:

http://jgrimbert.free.fr/pov/patch/tessel/index.html

Christoph

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From: Greg M Johnson
Subject: Re: Pov 2 Mesh
Date: 21 Oct 2002 13:06:54
Message: <3db4342e$1@news.povray.org>

Glad to see it works on albinos!

"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
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> http://jgrimbert.free.fr/pov/patch/tessel/index.html
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