POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Non-linear transforms : Re: Non-linear transforms Server Time
9 Aug 2024 09:02:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Non-linear transforms  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 20 Aug 2000 21:06:21
Message: <slrn8q10ri.j2.ron.parker@fwi.com>
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 11:10:22 -0500, Chris Huff wrote:
>In article <39966CA6.84396041@club-internet.fr>, Francois Dispot 
><woz### [at] club-internetfr> wrote:
>
>> I have already thought about this for meshes and it should be fast to
>> get the distance from a point to a mesh. Knowing whether it is inside or
>> not is a different problem...
>
>Actually, that one has already been solved in MegaPOV, all that is left 
>is the proximity calculation.

But it's not really solved; the method used is a little fiddly.

-- 
Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.


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