"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:

> I wondered if there was a way to fill the space with connected links - like a 3D
> chainmail.
>
> I would also LOVE to understand how to construct and use an octtree and do
> something along the lines of this:
>
> http://www.imagico.de/fast_iso/grid7.png
> from  http://www.imagico.de/fast_iso/patch.php


Look at a post done by Robert McGregor regarding a Octree space partitioning
experiment -
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3C4f26eaa2%241%40news.povray.org%3E/
and
http://news.povray.org/povray.text.scene-files/message/%3Cweb.4f2a0580cf27ae8a94d713cc0%40news.povray.org%3E/#%3Cweb.4f
2a0580cf27ae8a94d713cc0%40news.povray.org%3E
...

Use his code - but first define two objects (a mesh or something else and a
difference of a bigger cube and the first object) and replace spheres by
cube_frames.

Norbert

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