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25 Apr 2024 21:30:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Isofunctions and meshes  
From: John Greenwood
Date: 2 Dec 2016 08:05:01
Message: <web.584170a1b9cec73de15d43a80@news.povray.org>
"Tor Olav Kristensen" <tor### [at] TOBEREMOVEDgmailcom> wrote:
> "John Greenwood" <joh### [at] john-greenwoodcouk> wrote:

>> can my function, which is a single closed surface, be turned into mesh?
>
> Perhaps you can find something useful in this thread:
>
> Subject: Isosurface Approximation macros rewrite
> From: Tor Olav Kristensen
> Date: 2008 February 22nd
> Message: <47be20ab@news.povray.org>
> Newsgroup: povray.binaries.scene-files
>
>
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.scene-files/thread/%3C47cc76fd@news.povray.org%3E/
>
> --
> Tor Olav
> http://subcube.com

I have had a look and am floundering.

An example would be worth ten thousand words.

Could some kind person point me at an actual example of converting a simple
function, such as:
    function(x,y,z){sqrt(pow(x,2)+pow(y,2)+pow(z,2))-L)/r }
into a mesh object?


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