Warp wrote:
>   How many triangles do you need to make a triangle mesh to look even
> remotely as a sphere? Multiply that by 10000.

Warp is basically right, but come to think of it, a cube (or 
tetrahedron) might be a suitable approximation for a sphere in this 
case. :-)

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William Tracy
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