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

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 http://www.povray.org/news/index.php#324 [1] http://graphics.cyborg5.com/2016/10/29/converting-pov-ray-shapes-to-triangle-mesh-for-3-d-printing/ http://graphics.cyborg5.com/2016/10/29/converting-pov-ray-sh... [2] https://github.com/cyborg5/pov2mesh https://github.com/cyborg5/pov2mesh