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From: Thomas Willhalm
Date: 7 Mar 2000 11:43:34
Message: <qqmbt4qd93d.fsf@ramsen.fmi.uni-konstanz.de>

ron### [at] povrayorg (Ron Parker) writes:

> On 07 Mar 2000 16:31:30 +0100, Thomas Willhalm wrote:
> >> 2. Surface subdivision - currently only possible with meshes and only
> >>    can be done through use of memory and process intensive operations.
> >
> >Here I must confess that I don't know what this is in this context.
> >Or are you talking about mesh refinement for finite element methods?
> 
> See this site for a hopelessly technical explanation:
> 
> http://daisy.uwaterloo.ca/~hqle/subdivision/

So, you (or Ken) are suggesting to extend this approach to other
surfaces like CSG objects?

Thomas

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