On 10 Jan 2000 08:52:46 -0500, Nieminen Juha wrote:
>  This is a very clever idea.
>  However, it will only work for certain locations of the camera. You can't
>tesselate complicated objects with this trace() method, only parts that are
>visible from certain places.

Not true; you can always trace again after you find the first intersection to
find more.  But the real problem is that it's not really all that easy to turn
a collection of sample points into an unambiguous mesh; many papers have been
written on the topic, and many more will be written before it's considered 
"solved."

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The superpatch: http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/superpatch/
My other stuff: http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html

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