Hi alphaQuad;
  Thanks for the dl.  I'll give it a try this evening.  It could be a really
useful tool for me.  Thanks again...gjw

"George J. Wallace" <geo### [at] msncom> wrote in message
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> Hi alphaQuad - did you ever release that mesh viewer/exporter ?  If so,
I'd
> really like to get a copy.  TIA...gjw
> "alphaQuad" <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message
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> > "Leef_me" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > > "alphaQuad" <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> > > > Just meshin' around
> > >
> > > Wow, 5 starts for each!
> > >
> > > What are the render times for these beauties?
> > >
> > > How did you make the meshes?
> > >
> > > Leef_me
> >
> >
> > 2 minutes roughly @ 800x600
> >
> > all meshes are a dodecahedron.
> >
> > the model's history is from either calculation or an existing wrl.
> > remember my mirc mesh viewer pov exporter? It can take
> > shapes from a wrl library and export to pov.
> >
> > Another method is to calc it this way(I think these are left faces):
> >
> > alias initDodecahedron {
> >   npts = 20
> >   nfaces = 12
> >   A = 1.618034
> >   ;/* (sqrt(5) + 1) / 2 */
> >   B = 0.618034
> >   ;/* (sqrt(5) - 1) / 2 */
> >   C = 1.0
> >   vertexes = (-(A)) 0 B : (-(A)) 0 (-(B)) : A 0 (-(B)) : A 0 B : $&
> >     B (-(A)) 0 : (-(B)) (-(A)) 0 : (-(B)) A 0 : B A 0 : $&
> >     0 B (-(A)) : 0 (-(B)) (-(A)) : 0 (-(B))  A : 0 B A : $&
> >     (-(C)) (-(C)) C : (-(C)) (-(C)) (-(C)) : C (-(C)) (-(C)) : C (-(C))
C
> : $&
> >     (-(C)) C C : (-(C)) C (-(C)) : C C (-(C)) : C C C
> >   polygons = 1 13 11 12 17 : 2 18 9 10 14 : 3 15 10 9 19 : 4 20 12 11 16
:
> $&
> >     5 15 3 4 16 : 6 13 1 2 14 : 7 18 2 1 17 : $&
> >     8 20 4 3 19 : 9 18 7 8 19 : 10 15 5 6 14 : 11 13 6 5 16 : 12 20 8 7
17
> > }
> >
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