"Dave Vogt" <spa### [at] frozenbraincom> wrote in message
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> St. wrote:>> > How are you opening this tool?>> Unzip, run the .exe file ;)> Be sure to get the 3d Shape explorer, not the illustrator plugin.
Ah, thanks. That's exactly what I didn't do. ;)
~Steve~
> Dave
> These supershapes are neat to look at, but do they have a practical purpose?
Did you go to the Genicap www site. Johan Geilis is proposing them as a
useful 2D and 3D modelling primitive. He is also suggesting them as a
cnvenient way of modelling/describing biolodgical forms. Personally I'm
not so enthusiatic but they potentially have a place in ones toolkit.
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Paul Bourke
pdb_NOSPAMswin.edu.au