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>> Yes, because crude approximations
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> 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...
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> 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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