POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Isosurface to Mesh? : Re: Isosurface to Mesh? Server Time
31 Jul 2024 00:33:07 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Isosurface to Mesh?  
From: Kirk Andrews
Date: 21 Feb 2008 14:20:00
Message: <web.47bdce538a48b649af0d79570@news.povray.org>
Mike Williams <nos### [at] econymdemoncouk> wrote:
> Wasn't it Kirk Andrews who wrote:
>
> >It seems like someone had developed a macro that would produce a mesh from an
> >isosurface.  Is that still available?  Could someone direct me there?
>
> The original webpage of Kevin Loney's Approximation Macro seems to no
> longer exist, but there's a copy of his macro, and the version modified
> by Jaap Frank, in the download file in my isosurface tutorial.
>
> http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/isotut/approx.htm
>
> Be warned: In the vast majority of cases, the total time required to
> parse and render the approximation is greater than the time taken to
> render a real isosurface.
>
> --
> Mike Williams
> Gentleman of Leisure

Right, but, it is able to save the parsed file, correct?  And also, I have never
yet tried it, but I thought that there was a way with PoseRay to convert a POV
mesh into an .obj format.  Is this true?

Oh, and thanks for the link.  :)


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