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  Re: Help me pls! Turning list of points into triangle mesh?  
From: Mark Gordon
Date: 31 Aug 1999 22:16:47
Message: <37CC8CC5.69259AF0@mailbag.com>
Ron Parker wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, it's not quite that easy.  You can't lop of just any
> pointy bit.  Take a simple isosceles triangle.  Add a new vertex at
> the center of the base.  Move that vertex upward, so what you get looks
> like a rather angular version of the Federation emblem from Star Trek.
> Note that the angle surrounding the topmost vertex qualifies as a
> "pointy bit" yet the resulting triangle is neither inside nor outside
> the polygon.

Point well taken.  Like I said, I was a bit sleep deprived.

-- 
Mark Gordon
mtg### [at] povrayorg


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