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  Re: Help me pls! Turning list of points into triangle mesh?  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 2 Sep 1999 09:22:17
Message: <37ce7a09@news.povray.org>
On Wed, 01 Sep 1999 23:45:37 GMT, Cliff Bowman wrote:

>Double faces I think I know the reason for. A lot of modellers seem to
>get the normals *wrong* and so users sometimes make a copy of the
>model, flip the normals, and combine the two sets of meshes.

I've actually seen this approach RECOMMENDED in an otherwise good
book.  Might have had something to do with the book being written
for an inferior modeller like MAX, though... <big grin for Lance>


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