"John Greenwood" <joh### [at] john-greenwoodcouk> wrote:
> "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?

You can make any POV object into a mesh using trace.
My Rounded Prisms makes a Mesh2 file. Its at
http://leroywhetstone.s5.com/Pages/PovFiles.html#Tools

Although it's not simple, The basic idea is.
You take a mesh(in my case a simple flat surface) put the points into an array
then trace each point and save the new mesh.

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