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- In article <3nsnd5$bak@news4.primenet.com> krishna@primenet.com (Glenn Saunders) writes:
- >Path: news.primenet.com!krishna
- >From: krishna@primenet.com (Glenn Saunders)
- >Newsgroups: comp.graphics.packages.lightwave
- >Subject: Re: smooth/round
- >Date: 29 Apr 1995 06:47:01 GMT
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- >The mortal Jeff Walkup wrote:
- >: Glenn Saunders (krishna@primenet.com) wrote:
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- >: : What I'd like to be able to do is just build a blocky object and then use
- >: : some function to smooth it out.
-
- >: This is _exactly_ what metaform does. Check it out, under "subdivide".
-
- >Not exactly. If I take a cube and metaform it with a fractal of 0 I get
- >what looks like a faceted gem, kinda.
-
- >If I triple the polygons and then metaform it, it comes out looking a
- >little better, but now I have way too many polygons when I just wanted to
- >smoothen the edges. I've got a web of polygons covering flat space
- >unnecessarily just so that metaform only affects the edges.
-
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- >Metaform warps the entire object. If you rough out a triangle and
- >extrude it and try metaform you suddenly have a cubish center, it all
- >gets messed up.
-
- >What I'd like is some kind of bevel that does more than one bevel but
- >several that smoothens all selected edges.
-
- Persnickety Mode On:
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- Well - yes exactly. Your initial post did not request a way to "smooth all
- selected edges", it requested the ability to "build a blocky object and then
- use some function to smooth it out." You may not have gotten the info you
- wanted, but you did get the info you asked for.
-
- Persnickety Mode Off:
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- Give us a clue about what it is that you are trying to make. Details help in
- these matters.
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