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29 Mar 2025 07:11:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Calculating normal vectors for meshes  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 14 Mar 2025 09:07:42
Message: <67d42a1e$1@news.povray.org>
Op 14/03/2025 om 13:52 schreef Bald Eagle:
> yesbird <sya### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> 
>> Is there some ready-to-use code or utility for normal vectors
>> calculation for meshes ?
> 
> You'd think there was.  And I suppose that there really ought to be some
> existing under-the-hood calculation of normals for smooth_triangles.
> 
> (Maybe Pose-Ray does it?  Silo?   TdG would know)
> 
Yes indeed: Poseray does the job and is easy to use.

https://sites.google.com/site/poseray/

Not sure about Silo. It can manipulate them though, and it is a complex 
program. However, it is not free software as Poseray is.

-- 
Thomas


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