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4 Aug 2024 20:16:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Amapi is free  
From: ingo
Date: 18 Apr 2003 14:29:39
Message: <Xns9361D0ED32EE3seed7@povray.org>
in news:3ea03fdb@news.povray.org Andreas Kreisig wrote:

> To get smoothed results you have to use NURBS, 
> subdivision surfaces, Hypernurbs, weighted vertices or whatever. All
> this needs a modeller when you want to get good results because you
> need the optical feedback.
> 
> [...] And you don't want to tell me that you make an
> object by using a hand coded mesh2?
> 

This is where you undersetimate SDL. There are macros / include files 
available to generate NURBS surfaces, subdivision surfaces etc. Just like 
you don't draw every single triangle of a model by hand using a GUI, you 
don't need to when using SDL.

Ingo


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