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29 Jul 2024 10:24:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Tetrahedron Macro that uses Prism primative  
From: Dan Johnson
Date: 17 Dec 2002 15:10:15
Message: <3DFF85CA.6BBEFADF@hotmail.com>
Dan Johnson wrote:

> 
> I think you are right.  I don't think it would be too hard to make a
> macro to do that either.  Now I guess the next thing is to find the
> smallest oriented bounding box, and see which one is smaller.  If one is
> always smaller.
> 

Do bounding boxes with sheer work?  If they do I think you can get even
closer.  Then you could define it as a cube, and a matrix.  I think that
in an ideal bounding box all vertices would also be vertices of the
inclosed tetrahedron.  

Dan Johnson 
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