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That's pretty cool. A commandline app that just takes an .OBJ file and renders it to an .SVG would actually be pretty useful (viewport position / orientation would of course need to be options as well).

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Even cooler if I could figure out some general way of parameterizing & texturing the surface instead of just rendering the triangles. Any ideas?

Hughes Hoppe has done a variety of research that depends on finding interesting parameterizations of meshes. His papers aren't exactly lightweight on the math, but you may find some ideas there:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/hoppe/

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/hoppe/proj/vfd...

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/hoppe/proj/lap...

Awesome, thanks. I'll check that out.

Great! Hughes Hoppe's work is amazing!

Hugues Hoppe, unless he has changed his name.

Shit. Thanks for your correction, I can no longer edit the above comment to reflect it, sorry.

I seem to remember there's some good stuff from Pixar on contouring which might be helpful.

http://graphics.pixar.com/library/Contours/paper.pdf

if you check out the CGAL library, they have code that solves surface parameterization problems. the least squares conformal mapping is pretty nice for creating uv maps.

http://doc.cgal.org/latest/Surface_mesh_parameterization/gro...

http://doc.cgal.org/latest/Surface_mesh_parameterization/Sur...

Agree! That'd be pretty cool

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