Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> scott wrote:
> > I think it would be easiest (ie not take 400 years) if you made a
> > program in a faster language (eg C++) to write a df3 file, and then used
> > POV to render the df3 file as an isosurface.
>
>   Why does it have to be an isosurface? If you created a mesh out of it,
> it would probably render about a thousand times faster, in which case
> you could start adding fancy texturing, lighting and other effects
> without having to wait until the Sun dies.

Hi, Warp.

How do you turn a df3 density file into a mesh? Or do you mean convert the voxel
data into a mesh before feeding it to povray? Is there an easy way to do this? I
know how to turn a heightfield into a mesh, but not a solid 3D object like the
Mandelbulb, with its many internal holes.


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