[Haskell-cafe] ANN: mecha-0.0.5

Andrew Coppin andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Sun Jun 5 17:41:04 CEST 2011


On 04/06/2011 08:25 PM, Tom Hawkins wrote:

> What is the easiest way to generate polygon meshes from constructive
> solid geometry?  Marching cubes [4] seems pretty involved.

As I understand it, this is a Very Hard Problem. This is (one of the 
reasons) why there are so few converters from POV-Ray to mesh-based 
formats; it's highly non-trivial to tesselate CSG.



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