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From: Joe Angell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: smoothing
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> >    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
> ).

I think that if you use Subdivide/Smooth or Subdivide/Metaform (but that
may wind up doing something weird -- have to try it) it will "smooth"
between the polygons.  Faceted, however, will do as you describe.

-- Joe
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