Rene wrote:
> 
> Sorry... didn't want to appear as annonymous in my previous message.....
> 
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I need some help! I've got a stack of 2D images that represent a series
> of cross sections through an object. (This is biological data: sections
> through animal tissue) I am trying to reconstruct certain structures
> from this stack of images. Up to now I have been using a program called
> IGL trace to draw contours around these structures in all of the images
> and then exporting this information as a VRML object. Then I have to
> convert it to POV format. Unfortunately the objects appear to be quite
> "chuncky" in both VRML and POVRAY.
> 
> Is there some direct way to create a 3d modell (POVRAY) from a series of
> 
> contours?
> 
> Thanks a lot for any help!
> 
> Rene (rhe### [at] hotmailcom)

I don't know what you exactly mean by 2d contour files, if it's raster data, you
should have a look at the density file section in the pov documentation, if it's
a vector file you could write a program generating a triangle mesh. 

Christoph

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