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- On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Kent Lidke <73122.301@COMPUSERVE.COM> wrote:
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- > As sort of a cheap substitute for unwrapping the object, you can generate
- >a good Cylindrical or Spherical map by faking a 3D scanner in Layout.
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- WOW! That's an wonderful tip, and quite innovative. I wonder if
- there's some way to extend this technique so that it would be more than just
- cyl/sphere.....
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- Modeler somehow knows what the angle of various polygons are in relation
- to each other: Metaform, for instance, reacts to that info. Perhaps some
- incredibly complex plugin CAN be built that will unfold an arbitrary object into
- a flat surface.
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