POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Geometric puzzle : Re: Geometric puzzle Server Time
5 Sep 2024 03:23:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Geometric puzzle  
From: nemesis
Date: 18 Dec 2009 00:10:00
Message: <web.4b2b0e15c5832e7a7295bfc90@news.povray.org>
"gregjohn" <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> I tried a project in blender and ultimately failed.  I was trying to make a
> moving cross section through an (electronics) object that is essentially a board
> with regular spacings of nails in it.  I wanted to use 2-tone B&W image as the
> input device. I was able to get this to go in povray, after trying about a month
> failing in blender.  I wanted the cross section to slice both the "nails" and
> the "board".  Blender's CSG couldn't do the boolean logic on something this
> complex. Povray didn't blink.

It's not CSG.  They are messy boolean operations on meshes rather than solids.

would you show me the B&W image?


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