POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Envelope deformation : Re: Envelope deformation Server Time
9 Aug 2025 17:36:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Envelope deformation  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 25 Jul 2025 22:05:00
Message: <web.688437c627ff66201f9dae3025979125@news.povray.org>
Josh English <Jos### [at] joshuarenglishcom> wrote:
> On 7/25/2025 9:16 AM, Bald Eagle wrote:
> > Perhaps a script could be written to convert mesh and mesh2 objects to arrays,
> > and then we can have a macro to define the mesh from those arrays.
>
> We would need to be able to serialize the mesh objects, though. I don't
> know if 4.0 has any plans for that sort of thing. It would be nice to be
> able to export them after a complicated modeling job.
>
> Then again, I have Python at hand and I suspect most of us know other
> coding languages that could do the same job. I'm trying to be an SDL
> purist, probably to my detriment.
>
> Josh

Well, we have #read and #write.
I've written tens of thousands of bicubic patch objects to files that way.

So it shouldn't be that big of a problem to write a distorted mesh to a new
file.

- BE


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