[Haskell-cafe] ANN: mecha-0.0.5

[Carter Schonwald]

the algorithms in the CGAL library might be a good starting point in terms
of looking into other algorithmic approaches
http://www.cgal.org/
it has a excellent set of references for its component parts

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Andrew Coppin
<andrewcoppin at btinternet.com>wrote:

> 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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