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  Re: what is that shape called  
From: Jellby
Date: 14 Mar 2005 12:42:58
Message: <fdugg2-3dq.ln1@badulaque.unex.es>
Among other things, Bill Hails saw fit to write:

> Maybe not a name for that specific shape but a name for objects
> of that type, like a stone or wood merchant might carry round
> as samples.

I'm not a native English speaker, and I don't know if there's a more
appropriate word even in my own language, but "samples" sounds perfectly
valid to me.

Or maybe you mean "swatch"?
From dictionary.com: swatch: A sample strip cut from a piece of material

-- 
light_source{9+9*x,1}camera{orthographic look_at(1-y)/4angle 30location
9/4-z*4}light_source{-9*z,1}union{box{.9-z.1+x clipped_by{plane{2+y-4*x
0}}}box{z-y-.1.1+z}box{-.1.1+x}box{.1z-.1}pigment{rgb<.8.2,1>}}//Jellby


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