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  Re: POV-Ray for geeks only?  
From: Orchid XP v3
Date: 25 Feb 2007 16:07:03
Message: <45e1fa77$1@news.povray.org>
>> Very geeky cool!
> 
> Though the point was that I'm not a geek. I am a manual laborer.

Manual laborers can be geeks too - these are not muturally exclusive. ;-)

>> I'm nerdy enough to ask my first question is:
>> what's the formula?
> 
> Wrong question. There is no formula. This is not some mathematical
> surface or quickie fractal. This is hours and hours spent constructing a
> shape which happens to have polyhedral symmetry. This is hundreds of
> thousands of triangles arranged as one would arrange bricks and wood
> into a house (blindfolded).

Um... how the hell do you make curved surfaces out of flat angular things?


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