POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : image_map > solid object : Re: image_map > solid object Server Time
20 Apr 2024 02:46:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: image_map > solid object  
From: Paul
Date: 3 May 2016 10:30:00
Message: <web.5728b4e32da27c23a09e82530@news.povray.org>
"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> "Paul" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > I need a solid object, the 2 surfaces joined - the transparent yellow things > on
the right side.
>
> Where do your images come from? If they were generated by a vector drawing
> program you may be able to do it another way. Inkscape (https://inkscape.org/)
> can export paths as POV-Ray prism objects, which would do exactly what you want.
>
> If you only have the images, it may still be possible to use Inkscape to trace
> over the images, creating equivalent paths that could then be exported.
>
> Bill

Images are coming from clients.
No other formats are available, only PNG (if I'm lucky) or JPG.
I don't think tracing will work, probably not that good definition of resulting
objects.
Well, looks like this is one tricky operation, thank you for all your help.


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