POV-Ray : Newsgroups : moray.binaries : New Domenator plugin : Re: New Domenator plugin Server Time
19 Apr 2024 04:32:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: New Domenator plugin  
From: andrel
Date: 16 Sep 2004 08:23:30
Message: <4149861D.5000507@hotmail.com>
Philippe_Gibone wrote:


> news:414### [at] hotmailcom...
> 
>>As a postprocessing step after generating the mesh:
>>Copy the mesh and offset all the points in the direction of the
>>normal. connect all the points at the egdes of the two meshes.
>>Will not work properly if the offset results in mesh intersections.
> 
> 
> This will not work, because the panes will not be thick, but only,
> apparently thick. If you difference the dome with something else you'll see
> the two meshes with vacuum in-between, but not a cut thick dome ;-(((
> 
If you connect the two meshes together at the edges it is just one mesh,
so that will work. NB don't forget to flip all the triangles
in one of the two, otherwise to normal (and thus the inside and outside)
is not defined consistently.


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