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From: Rune
Date: 7 Jan 2004 15:23:37
Message: <3ffc6ac9@news.povray.org>
andrel wrote:
> If you stich three 4-sided patched
> together you have a new patch with
> 6 edges all of which are cubic.

The way you propose to make a 6-sided bicubic patch requires stitching
together 3 bicubic patches so their corners meet in a point. As you can
read in other posts in this thread, you can't do that and still have a
smooth surface.

There is no way to create smooth n-sided bicubic patches from 4-sided
bicubic patches.

Rune
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