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In a message dated 95-10-20 01:25:00 EDT, you write:

>    I'm a little stumpted, and I hope you'll excuse my taking up the
>list's time with such a rudimentary problem--but I can't get a sphere to
>look smooth.
>
>    I don't recall having this prob before, but maybe my spheroids
>have been far enough from the camera that smoothing does the trick.
>
>    I've even tried tripling and subdividing, thinking the more
>polygons, the smoother.  My sphere was nearly sixty k polygons, and still
>looked like a great geodesic dome.

This won't work. All you've done is break each facet into a set of polygons
forming a plane. You must adjust the sphere settings in the numeric
window to generate the correct point distribution. ( Try Tesselation level 3
).

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Dan Esmond
Animagic
Austin, TX

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