POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Triangle Mesh : Re: Triangle Mesh Server Time
30 Jul 2024 04:12:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Triangle Mesh  
From: ingo
Date: 18 Feb 2000 17:17:14
Message: <8EDEE0097seed7@204.213.191.228>
Ken wrote:

>David Vincent-Jones wrote:
>> 
>> I would like to put in a list of 3D points and finish up with a set of
>> triangles that I can massage into a mesh_triangle set.
>
>It sounds like you are describing what is known as a point cloud. 
>......
> Otherwise you will get a meaningless jumble of triangles.

No triangle solution, but thinking loud;
-How about using a blob with a component at each coordinate?
-Could a pointcloud be turned into a datafile that can be used to make an 
isosurface object (i_dat3d library) in MegaPov?

Ingo

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