POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Deleting triangles : Re: Deleting triangles Server Time
5 Sep 2024 02:15:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Deleting triangles  
From: Johannes Bretscher
Date: 3 Jan 2002 12:47:41
Message: <ib121a.b9m.ln@cthulhu.hans.5sl.org>

> On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 13:46:04 +0100, Johannes Bretscher <bre### [at] 5slorg> wrote:
>> Is it possible to delete some triangles from tihs mesh, i.e. to cut a hole
>> in the generatet surface?
> there is many ways to do it. it depend what your hole is and what your object is
> check clipped_by{}, bounded_by{}, difference{}, intersection{}

So CSG can be used with a mesh. That was the hint I needet. I thought
only solid objects are.

> you can be interested in
> http://news.povray.org/Xns915C94A8BA293seed7%40povray.org

Thanks for the link.

> 
> ABX

Johannes

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