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  Re: Declaring blob components ?  
From: David Wilkinson
Date: 29 Feb 2000 05:53:06
Message: <bq8nbsoer1k6cndiri5fa8b280hp4uku1m@4ax.com>
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:56:47 -0000, "Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandluforce9couk> wrote:
>
>David Wilkinson <dav### [at] cwcomnet> wrote in message
>news:q6klbskh7njnqkf39c6mhvk9q8b0hdrfo4@4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:51:17 -0000, "Tom Melly"
><tom### [at] tomandluforce9couk> wrote:
>>
>> >I'm having the same problem as Moon47.
>> >
>> >Do I take it from the various answers given that it is not possible to
>> >declare a whole blob component?
>> >
>> What do you mean by "whole blob component"?
>
>I mean that you cannot declare a blob component in the way that you can
>declare a sphere or box. Instead you have to declare the individual vectors
>and so on that make up a component.
>
OK Tom, we're just differing on semantics. Because a blob is not a regular geomtric
solid
the information necessary to define a blob increases with the complexity of the shape.
Even with a box you have to define the vectors that define it.
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