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5 Aug 2024 16:15:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Smooth triangles?  
From: James Taylor
Date: 28 Aug 2002 17:50:17
Message: <3d6d4599@news.povray.org>
"Tim Nikias" <tim### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
news:3d6cc478@news.povray.org...
> Seems that it doesn't matter. I thought of some problems
> about a year ago which I had when having a go on meshes,
> but I guess that had to do with the way I calculated the
> normals (pointing in weird directions), rather than the length
> of the vectors...


this is the funny thing, I -know- the normals are correct, I 've drawn them
in using cylinders, but I still see the triangles. for the moment I've given
up on figuring it out and gone for the brute force method - increase the
number of triangles 'til you can't see them.

jim


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