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29 Sep 2024 09:19:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Be very afraid...  
From: nemesis
Date: 25 Sep 2009 17:09:52
Message: <4abd31a0@news.povray.org>
Invisible escreveu:
> Warp wrote:
> 
>>   I think that the point is that nobody designs models using raw triangle
>> meshes. Instead, all models are designed using NURBS or other similar
>> spline-based surfaces which are easy to edit. The triangle mesh you see
>> in the end result has been automatically generated from those surface
>> models.
> 
> That would make a lot more sense, yes...

Subdivision surfaces are just like that, except generated smoothness is 
controlled by number of iterations.

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