Warp wrote:
>   In order to get more accuracy polygons can be subdivided into smaller
> polygons and radiosity lighting calculated at each of the new vertices.

I think that's what I was talking about. But without the 
multiple-normals-per-polygon, even.  It was a pretty theoretical class.

> This is especially true in real-time rendering using hardware, as polygon
> counts should be minimized, possibly being replaced with more detailed
> textures.

This class was long before anyone was making special-purpose graphics 
chips. Heck, this was probably a decade before software jpeg compression 
was feasible. :-)  I think a pen plotter and a tektronics tube was 
cutting edge graphics.

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