POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : Q: Iso "Heart" : Re: Q: Iso "Heart" Server Time
1 Sep 2024 18:14:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Q: Iso "Heart"  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 13 Jan 2001 09:52:13
Message: <3A606B9E.EF1256A8@gmx.de>
Andy Cocker wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I still haven't got to grips with isosurfaces... I'm trying to utilise the
> built in "heart" function, and it's taken me absolutely ages to actually get
> the thing to appear.. but now I cannot get rid of the ugly horizontal line
> which bisects the heart...
> 

That line seems to be specific for the "heart" function, it's also visible
in Smellenbergh's isosurface manual: http://users.skynet.be/smellenbergh/
and Mike's Isosurface Tutorial:
http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/isotut/index.htm

> 
> Not sure how I arrived at 0.0005 for accuracy.. could this be optimised?
> 

You arrived there by typing it in :-) You can often use the default value,
unless it is not accurate enough, which usually only occurs with noise3d
and pigment functions.  

Christoph

-- 
Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
IsoWood include, radiosity tutorial, TransSkin and other 
things on: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/


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