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In article <chr### [at] netplex aussie org>,
chr### [at] mac com says...
> Better would be to make it dependant on the distance along the
> spline...
Yes, but thats not as easy to calculate. And it will be alway bigger or
equal to distance between the points, so there isn't the danger of
accidently taking a too large epsilon.
> Not really. Patches are converted to triangles for intersection testing,
> but they can do adaptive subdivision on the fly,
I thought the subdivision is only perfomed once, when generating the
triangles (unless type 0 is used)
> It is harder to connect them smoothly, as well.
This may be true in general, but for just building a lathe shape it isn't
a problem.
Lutz-Peter
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