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From: Ben Chambers
Subject: Re: Curved Triangles
Date: 19 Apr 2002 12:51:07
Message: <3cc04afa@news.povray.org>
Ben Chambers wrote:

> Hugo wrote:
> 
>>> IIRC, the number of faces is something like LOD^2.  What LOD did you
>>> use?  I find that 5-10 is usually enough, especially with small
>>> triangles.
>> 
>> I use LOD 1 (your minimum) and only tried low numbers.. I would like
>> LOD 1 to mean the double amount of triangles as the input data...
> 
> LOD 1 *should* mean one triangle is used (2 = 4 triangles, 3 = 9 etc).
> I'll look into what's going on here...
>

Confirmed that my C++ implementation uses LOD^2 triangles, and that the 
POV version does not.  Ergo, I translated something wrong :)  I'll 
release a patched version in a few days.

...Chambers


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