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11 Aug 2024 21:27:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Strange Attractors by Manuel Kasten  
From: Marc Roth
Date: 16 Mar 2004 10:53:35
Message: <405722ff$1@news.povray.org>
Edward Coffey wrote:
> Put simply, you can't use the order of generation to decide how to 
> approximate the surface because while for any given point, n, it is 
> possible that point n+1 is right next to it, it is just as likely to be 
> over the other side of the object.

ah, i didn't know that. instead of a guessing-algorithm one could also 
use several steps to create a surface:
1) create all points and store them in a file
2) create triangles from them by taking one point and finding the 2 
closest point

step two would be very cpu-time-consuming, as far as i know, so it's not 
a very efficient way.
ciao,
	Marc


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