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
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> 2 minutes roughly @ 800x600
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> 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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