POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.programming: Get polygon(or mesh) information: Re: Get polygon(or mesh) information

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From: Le Forgeron
Date: 24 Nov 2010 15:10:39
Message: <4ced713f$1@news.povray.org>

Greetings,

Le 24/11/2010 20:36, tltsai nous fit lire :
> Hello !
> 
> I create this image http://imgur.com/e6ICY.png .
> 

A cylinder on flat box.

> 1.For some reason, I want to know the information of polygons.These polygons are
> on this cylinder and illuminated by reflex light from the ground.I want to know
> information such as polygon coordinate , normal vector ...etc.
> 

Huh ?
Which polygons ? The cylinder is not made of polygon, that's the
difference of Povray.

> 2.After I find those information,I want to change some properties of these
> polygon,such as color or reflection.
> 
> So what source code I should modify to conquer above two questions?

How did you make the image ?

> 
> Any suggestion would be OK!

A classical RTFM ? Might be a bit rude ?
A bit of direction about using trace() in your scene
Try the documentation at http://www.povray.org/

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