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pov2mesh
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pov2mesh

initial release

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
28GitHub stars
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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

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Observed mentions: 2023-02-10 20:20:50 UTC to 2023-02-11 14:26:20 UTC.

012023-02-10 20:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-10 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 10, 20:002023-02-10 21:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-10 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-10 22:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-10 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-10 23:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-11 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-11 01:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-11 02:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-11 02:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-11 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-11 03:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-11 04:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-11 04:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-11 05:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-11 05:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-11 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 11, 05:002023-02-11 06:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-11 07:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-11 07:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-11 08:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-11 08:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-11 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-11 09:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-11 10:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-02-11 10:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-11 11:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-11 11:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-11 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-11 12:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-11 13:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-11 13:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-11 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-11 14:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-11 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 11, 14:00

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Feb 10, 20:002023-02-10 20:00:00 UTC2023-02-10 21:00:00 UTC101
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Feb 10, 22:002023-02-10 22:00:00 UTC2023-02-10 23:00:00 UTC000
Feb 10, 23:002023-02-10 23:00:00 UTC2023-02-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 11, 00:002023-02-11 00:00:00 UTC2023-02-11 01:00:00 UTC000
Feb 11, 01:002023-02-11 01:00:00 UTC2023-02-11 02:00:00 UTC000
Feb 11, 02:002023-02-11 02:00:00 UTC2023-02-11 03:00:00 UTC000
Feb 11, 03:002023-02-11 03:00:00 UTC2023-02-11 04:00:00 UTC000
Feb 11, 04:002023-02-11 04:00:00 UTC2023-02-11 05:00:00 UTC000
Feb 11, 05:002023-02-11 05:00:00 UTC2023-02-11 06:00:00 UTC000
Feb 11, 06:002023-02-11 06:00:00 UTC2023-02-11 07:00:00 UTC000
Feb 11, 07:002023-02-11 07:00:00 UTC2023-02-11 08:00:00 UTC000
Feb 11, 08:002023-02-11 08:00:00 UTC2023-02-11 09:00:00 UTC000
Feb 11, 09:002023-02-11 09:00:00 UTC2023-02-11 10:00:00 UTC101
Feb 11, 10:002023-02-11 10:00:00 UTC2023-02-11 11:00:00 UTC000
Feb 11, 11:002023-02-11 11:00:00 UTC2023-02-11 12:00:00 UTC000
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Feb 11, 14:002023-02-11 14:00:00 UTC2023-02-11 15:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I'm afraid you are mistaken. It does not output a triangle mesh, and the project page says no such thing. It does not even construct such a mesh internally. Its "notion of volumes and surfaces" is implicit and constrained to ray intersection tests for graphics rendering. There is a news entry [0] pointing to a blog post [1] by someone who did manage to sort of reconstruct a triangle mesh from a POV-Ray scene. They had to write macros to shoot a bunch of depth test rays into the scene to generate a point cloud, and extract the surface in Meshlab. They've released some of the code [2] and it's called "pov2mesh". If you read any of that - or use POV-Ray at all - it's very clear that it's not a mesh editor, or any sort of CAD tool. [0] http://www.povray.org/news/index.php#324 [1] http://graphics.cyborg5.com/2016/10/29/converting-pov-ray-sh...
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