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Heya, Can anyone point me to an algorithm for converting a polyline to a triangle mesh? The polyline must be allowed to be highly irregular - concave, definitely. Maybe not ... ummm ... fully connected. I've been doing some googling, but so far I've (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Converting Polyline to Mesh
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(...) I coulda sworn I mentioned this here before. (URL) I can't find the reference (something about stained glass window patterns). Oh well. Enjoy, Don (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Converting Polyline to Mesh
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(...) Oops, found it. (URL) in case I lose it again: Delaunay, triangle, vectorize, mesh, polyline, voronoi, and tesselate! That oughta do it... Don (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Converting Polyline to Mesh
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(...) Uh. Wow. Yeah, that should do what I need. If it can fill in Lake Superior, it should handle my little de-rasterized figure. I suspect that using Triangle on my little polygon-filling exercise will be like using a firehose to water a flower (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Converting Polyline to Mesh
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(...) Well, just in case you change your mind on gcc, it really is easy. (URL) Anyway, thanks for the link. Once I have results, I post them somewhere. Speaking of links and firehoses, here's a short list of alternative triangle mesh generators. (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) You have a twisted sense of 'lazy'. ;) Or is there something obvious I'm missing? Steve (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Converting Polyline to Mesh
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(...) Err, twisted is probably a good call. I followed a few links and did see some with free windows executables, and I thought I saw some that mentioned other "normal" formats like STL and/or DXF? Anyhow, I compiled triangle for windows if you (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Converting Polyline to Mesh
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(...) OK. If some makes commercial/research software that outputs LDraw format, it'd be good for us to know about... (...) Well, there's also the bit about Triangle wanting *me* to tell *it* about holes in the area to be filled -- that was one of (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Converting Polyline to Mesh
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(...) the instructions on (URL) this page> when you compiled it? ;-) --Travis (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Converting Polyline to Mesh
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(...) Err, no. That would have required some RTFM on my part, which seriously conflicts with the coefficient of laziness. Somebody turn off that firehose, pronto! (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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