POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Not grokking mesh camera : Re: Not grokking mesh camera Server Time
19 May 2024 09:03:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Not grokking mesh camera  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 5 May 2023 18:50:00
Message: <web.6455876669f793731f9dae3025979125@news.povray.org>
Josh English <Jos### [at] joshuarenglishcom> wrote:
> But bezier patches? That's a cruel challenge.

Not even remotely.

> I don't know how to
> convert a patch to a mesh in the first place. That's why I used them: to
> let POV-Ray do the hard work.

Mr. English, my dear Sir, TOK and I have done all of the hard work, and you may
generate a mesh of triangles from any Bezier patch that you wish.

You're not even subject to the u and v step limits for rendering the patch,
since you'll be custom generating the mesh in SDL.

Here ya go:


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