POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Isofunctions and meshes : Re: Isofunctions and meshes Server Time
2 May 2024 08:35:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Isofunctions and meshes  
From: John Greenwood
Date: 8 Dec 2016 07:35:00
Message: <web.58495284b9cec73de15d43a80@news.povray.org>
"Leroy" <whe### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> "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?

> 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.

Interesting... a very limited case mesher, but I think what is needed is a
simple-to-use meshing engine.


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