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26 Apr 2024 14:45:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Box blob object?  
From: Mr
Date: 20 Aug 2017 10:10:01
Message: <web.599997f8ba742d5f61ea16670@news.povray.org>
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 16.08.2017 um 01:15 schrieb Mr:
> > clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> >> Am 10.08.2017 um 15:15 schrieb bgimeno:
> >>>
> >>> Well, at the moment I can't see any exit to the limits that the syntax
> >>> of blob in pov-ray imposes. I have not achieved anything acceptable,
> >>> except a certain resentment against those sticky forms.
> >>
> >> POV-Ray's blobs are indeed currently too limited to do that job. You'd
> >> need to resort to isosurfaces for that purpose.
> >
> > Except an isosurface cube probably won't merge with a blob yet, will it?
>
> No, but the other way round is now possible: A blob can be turned into a
> `potential` pattern, a pattern can be turned into a function, and a
> function can be combined with other isosurface functions such as that of
> a "blob box" isosurface.

Every blob converted to a function... Why not have povray do it all the time
under the hood so that these two types of entities get compatible with
eachother?


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