Nieminen Mika wrote:
> 
> John VanSickle <van### [at] erolscom> wrote:
> : For instance, in my last IRTC entry, the insect parts were made of
> : bicubic patches, which I converted to meshes
> 
>   I wonder why.

Most of the bug parts had 12 bicubic patches in them, but others had
16, and I think one has 20.  There are 128 triangles per patch, and each
bug had roughly 30,000 triangles in it.  The use of meshes achieved a
memory savings of about 4.5 megs per bug.

They also parsed more quickly this way.

Regards,
John

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