Mike Williams wrote:

> A method for laying out a 60-face geodesic pattern of dimples on a golf
> ball was patented in 1996 by Robert Thurman, but since my image has more
> than 90 faces (I think I have 768), and I'm not making golf balls, I'd
> probably be OK. His patent also included balls with more dimples, but
> that was achieved by having more than one dimple per face.


That raises an interesting question, what if a patented method for 
laying out dimples on a golf ball were used in a scene file, to create 
an accurate representation of the geometry of a golf ball. Would that be 
considered patent infringement?

-- 
~Mike

Things! Billions of them!

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