>> Yes, because crude approximations
> 
> Who said anything about crude?  You said a billion triangles, on a 
> 1920x1200 screen that makes each triangle about 1/500th of a pixel.

Fundamentally, what it comes down to is this: No matter how smooth it 
looks, *I* would know it's fake. And that would seriously annoy me.

Why have a fake when you can have the real thing?

>> to cylindrical columns look so much more photo-realistic than actually 
>> cylindrical columns. Oh, wait...
> 
> I've never seen a mathematically perfect cylindrical column IRL before.

And I've never seen a cylinder make of triangular facets IRL either.

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