Mike Williams <nos### [at] econymdemoncouk> wrote:
> Wasn't it SharkD who wrote:
> >Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> >> SharkD <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> >> > I was wondering if there were a quicker alternative that I hadn't
> >> >thought of?
> >>
> >>   You could always try to create a triangle mesh from those functions.
> >> The code will be quite complicated, but the result will render extremely
> >> fast.
> >>
> >> --
> >>                                                           - Warp
> >
> >Thanks, that's a good idea. I was hoping to avoid doing this though, as it's a
> >bit more involved.
>
> There's a macro by Ingo Janssen that creates a mesh2 of smooth triangles
> from a set of parametric equations. It's an awful lot faster than
> parametric isosurfaces, and you can save the mesh to a file.
>
> See: http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/isotut/param.htm
>
> --
> Mike Williams
> Gentleman of Leisure

The link on that page doesn't work anymore, but I found the files here:
http://code.google.com/p/mmgm/

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