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29 Mar 2025 07:18:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Calculating normal vectors for meshes  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 14 Mar 2025 11:40:00
Message: <web.67d44ce4dd89838fb00a87a025979125@news.povray.org>
yesbird <sya### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

> Thanks for your suggestions, I have Poseray, but for unknown reasons
> it doesn't like my mesh (please, see attached image).

Hmm.  That's interesting.
Maybe there's a hole in the mesh, and it needs to get repaired?

Perhaps try:
https://www.meshlab.net/

and see if that, or another similar tool helps after a round of fixing?

- BW

Are you generating your mesh programmatically?
Are you using an implicit or parametric equation to define the surface?


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