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  Re: Tesselating a 2D surface  
From: Ken
Date: 18 Nov 1999 17:49:35
Message: <38348242.3056C3FA@pacbell.net>
Martin Magnusson wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know of a (good) algorithm to tesselate a 2D polygon?
> 
> At least I think tesselation is what I'm after - what I want to do is
> distributing points evenly inside a polygon with a certain maximum distance
> to each other (that is, tesselate(d) should fill the polygon with enogh
> points so that no points are more separated by more than d distance), and
> then make a triangular mesh out of it.
> 
> Any ideas?

You might find something useful at one of the sites listed here:
http://www.povray.org/links/3D_Resources/3D_solid_construction_methods/

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