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  Re: Q: What is a degenerate triangle?  
From: Mathias Broxvall
Date: 23 Mar 1999 11:09:53
Message: <36F7BCD1.11B93FD4@ida.liu.se>
Ken wrote:
> I can't think of any other way to
> have two opposing sides of a flat surface connected to each other.

How about a muebius strip (spelling?), the band with only one surface.
Perhaps the problem is that if you interpolate normals pointing to
different
sides of the surface there will exist a point on the triangle with the
normal <0,0,0> which of course messes things up....

/ Mathias Broxvall


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