I would like to convert the frames of this cool dymaxion projection animation to
meshes, like .obj or similar format:
http://www.westnet.com/~crywalt/unfold.html

The .povs are in 3.5 or 3.6 format. I've tried 3DWin, pov2mesh command line and
Bishop3D, but no luck. With Bishop3D, I commented out stuff in the includes that
were causing errors (like quadric), but the final error was in the actual .povs:
clipped_by.

Any suggestions?

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On 30/10/2011 1:44 PM, Beluga wrote:
> With Bishop3D, I commented out stuff in the includes that
> were causing errors (like quadric), but the final error was in the actual .povs:
> clipped_by.
>
> Any suggestions?

With Bishop3D I comment out the things that B3D does not support as 
well. Then use a difference and comment out the clipped_by (and the 
closing brace)

#declare Facet = object {
   sphere { <-0.000000,0,-0.000000>, 5.004698 }
   clipped_by {
     plane { <0,0,-1>, 0 }
     object {
       plane { <0,0,-1>, 0 }
       rotate x*-108
       rotate z*-31.75
       }
     object {
       plane { <0,0,-1>, 0 }
       rotate x*108
       rotate z*31.75
       }
     }
   }

Becomes:

#declare Facet = difference {
   sphere { <-0.000000,0,-0.000000>, 5.004698 }
//  clipped_by {
     plane { <0,0,-1>, 0 }
     object {
       plane { <0,0,-1>, 0 }
       rotate x*-108
       rotate z*-31.75
       }
     object {
       plane { <0,0,-1>, 0 }
       rotate x*108
       rotate z*31.75
       }
//    }
   }




-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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Stephen <mcavoys_at@aoldotcom> wrote:
> On 30/10/2011 1:44 PM, Beluga wrote:
> > With Bishop3D, I commented out stuff in the includes that
> > were causing errors (like quadric), but the final error was in the actual .povs:
> > clipped_by.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> With Bishop3D I comment out the things that B3D does not support as
> well. Then use a difference and comment out the clipped_by (and the
> closing brace)
>
> #declare Facet = object {
>    sphere { <-0.000000,0,-0.000000>, 5.004698 }
>    clipped_by {
>      plane { <0,0,-1>, 0 }
>      object {
>        plane { <0,0,-1>, 0 }
>        rotate x*-108
>        rotate z*-31.75
>        }
>      object {
>        plane { <0,0,-1>, 0 }
>        rotate x*108
>        rotate z*31.75
>        }
>      }
>    }
>
> Becomes:
>
> #declare Facet = difference {
>    sphere { <-0.000000,0,-0.000000>, 5.004698 }
> //  clipped_by {
>      plane { <0,0,-1>, 0 }
>      object {
>        plane { <0,0,-1>, 0 }
>        rotate x*-108
>        rotate z*-31.75
>        }
>      object {
>        plane { <0,0,-1>, 0 }
>        rotate x*108
>        rotate z*31.75
>        }
> //    }
>    }
>
>
>
>
> --
> Regards
>      Stephen

Thanks for the advice, although Bishop3D's interpretation of the mesh is quite..
imploded: http://imgur.com/f0cpY
3DWin and pov2mesh remain unable to do anything.

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On 30/10/2011 7:20 PM, Beluga wrote:

>
> Thanks for the advice, although Bishop3D's interpretation of the mesh is quite..
> imploded: http://imgur.com/f0cpY
> 3DWin and pov2mesh remain unable to do anything.
>
>
>
I've never been able to get pov2mesh to work satisfactorily. But when I 
did a quick test of the first object in the first file it looked okay. I 
will to do proper test tomorrow. In the past I replaced the (clipped_by) 
plane with a box in the difference. It seemed to work okay in my test.

2nd thought. Did you evaluate all objects? Commands > Evaluate all scene 
objects.

And as for B3D you might get additional support on the forums as 
StephenS is more active there. http://www.bishop3d.com/forum/index.php


Regards
     Stephen

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Stephen <mcavoys_at@aoldotcom> wrote:
> I've never been able to get pov2mesh to work satisfactorily. But when I
> did a quick test of the first object in the first file it looked okay. I
> will to do proper test tomorrow. In the past I replaced the (clipped_by)
> plane with a box in the difference. It seemed to work okay in my test.
>
> 2nd thought. Did you evaluate all objects? Commands > Evaluate all scene
> objects.

Yes, you are right: evaluation fixes the mess. But I can't save, because the
unregistered version has a limitation of max. 10 objects per file.

Pov2mesh for me throws a parsing #include error: unexpected end of file
I have all the needed .inc files and the texture file in the pov2mesh directory.
Maybe I'm overlooking something with the includes and where they need to be?

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On 30/10/2011 10:29 PM, Beluga wrote:
> Pov2mesh for me throws a parsing #include error: unexpected end of file
> I have all the needed .inc files and the texture file in the pov2mesh directory.
> Maybe I'm overlooking something with the includes and where they need to be?

As I said. I've never been able to get it to work. Sorry I can't help there.

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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