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Hey... I didn't do much more experimenting, but I did get a start on porting the code over to Python (see attached).  It's not complete, but/so please be sure to read my comments at the top of the routine at the bottom (the first 2 functions are moslty grabbed from some older scripts).

Ooh!  Excellent!  Thank you.  I was prepared to try to do it myself, which would probably involve making a horrid, hacked-up mess of your 2007 ray-casting code.  :lol:  I'm glad you've done this.  Thank you.  :thumbupboth:  You are the ray-casting guy and, as I've said before, the brains of the outfit.  :woot:  :lol:

I'll start adding this in.

I'm wondering if the use of the close weights-generated average for the normal might help for a second ray-casting pass.  I didn't check it yesterday to see if it's still failing in the same areas as the current ray-casting, but its results do differ in those areas, which suggests that it may be catching them.  If so, it could be a useful process in cases like the one I've been testing, with a complex uphill comparison in which some surfaces aren't very well-aligned at comparison time.  That's really the only thing I'm still chasing after now, improved tolerance of surface mis-matches going uphill.

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.