Sven Littkowski <jam### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my naive idea for a basic melting was or is, to do this "melting" or
> "fusioning" simply by a number of curved bodies. Such a curve body looks
> similar to a spline or a quarter of a hollow cylinder. One beside each
> other would be added (in my image with a STRENGTH value of 2.0 units).
> The curves are at a 90° angle to the body's surface at that point, but
> at corners there would be added more of these curve bodies in different
> angles until they reach the angle of the next side of the body that is
> fusioned into the first body (example; a box - each side has a 90° angle
> from the other sides, at the corners, more curve bodies are added in
> different angles until the curve body's angle equals then with the angle
> of the next side of the box). And finally, all these shapes would be
> somehow merged together, to create one body. Each curve body takes at
> one end the texture of the body below, and on the other end the texture
> of that other body, and has something like a texture_map to merge both
> textures, like the Blob.
>
> In some cases, the shape of the curve body could also look like an "S",
> if one body is melted close to the side of another body. If you don't
> understand what I mean, I can create another graphic about that
> particular case.
>
> The problem is, that I am not a programmer for such things. I do
> programming, but with Delphi, and very different applications. That is,
> why I have only very naive ideas about how to do this melting or
> fusioning. I hope, that my idea above could lead to a simplified melting.

See if what you need is in the Object Collection:

http://lib.povray.org/searchcollection/index2.php?objectName=RoundEdge&contributorTag=Cousin%20Ricky

Someone else has implemented isosurface blobs using a more intuitive user
interface than mine, but I don't recall by whom or where it is located.  The
module was discussed in one of these newsgroups, so you might try a search.

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