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From: William Pokorny
Date: 17 Sep 2009 14:35:00
Message: <web.4ab2811adbac571815ee2c550@news.povray.org>
Hi Stephen,
Not a utility by any stretch, but there might be a path for what you want.

Mike Williams's isosurface tutorial has a mention of a mesh approximation macro.
"Kevin Loney has produced an include file which produces a mesh object that
approximates an isosurface." Unfortunately the link is dead so unsure where to
get a current version of it.

If that exists somewhere, suppose we use ObjectAsIso.inc to turn the CSG into an
isosurface and then this mesh approximation macro to turn that isosurface into a
mesh?

Regards, Bill

Stephen <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:50:05 EDT, "William Pokorny" <pokorny_epix_net> wrote:
>
> >Oddly this effect has me wondering about converting
> >large CSG count objects into single mesh2 objects on the fly...
>
> If you were going to do that then I imagine that there would be a few people (me
> for one) who would like a stand alone utility to convert CSG objects to meshes.
> Hint ;)
> --
>
> Regards
>      Stephen


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