And a realistic texture will add as much imperfection, anyway.

"David Fontaine" <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote in message
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> Chris Colefax wrote:
>
> > Each torii segment starts with the tangent that the previous segment
ended
> > with, so the results certainly should be smooth.
>
> Just to nitpick: though not the same effect as the ripples we saw, this
would
> have the same problem as the "roundbox" and related shapes where it looks
like
> there is an irregularity in the surface. Essentially there is, because
there's a
> discontinuity in the curvature of the surface, it's most noticeable when a
> highlight falls on the discontinuous area. But to make a truly smooth
surface
> would be needlessly complicated and probably slow to render.
>
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