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29 Sep 2024 05:18:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Be very afraid...  
From: Invisible
Date: 24 Sep 2009 06:43:34
Message: <4abb4d56$1@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
> Ever heard of subdivision surfaces, Andrew?  You can get a perfectly 
> round sphere out of a plain cube cage by specifying up to 5 iterations. 

Yes. But the resulting surface can only be controlled by the 8 original 
cube corners. That's not much control.

> No one designs multibillion triangle meshes by carefully moving them one 
> by one.

And yet, in all known editors, moving triangle corners around one at a 
time is the only available editing operation...


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