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29 Sep 2024 05:16:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Be very afraid...  
From: nemesis
Date: 24 Sep 2009 07:46:38
Message: <4abb5c1e$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> 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.

If you need refinement, you do loop cuts over the control cage and extrude.

>> 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...

You have your head in the 80's.  Do you ever click on the links I provide?


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