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  18. Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 00:58:39 -0500 (EST)
  19. From: Michael Teper <mt3q+@andrew.cmu.edu>
  20. To: lightwave-l@netcom.com
  21. Subject: Re: Modeling Help Needed
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  27. Excerpts from mail: 16-Mar-95 Modeling Help Needed by Justin Barrett@tenforwd. 
  28. > grossly distorted polygons in the process.  This mostly happens on pointed
  29. > parts of the polygon, like in the mane of the horse.  I hope this is
  30. > described well enough...it's hard to explain it without showing a picture
  31. > of the image.  Lemme see if I can ASCII-draw it.  Here's an example of
  32. > what's happening, using one corner of a triangle (the easiest thing to
  33. > draw that is similar to the part of the design I'm having trouble with):
  34.  
  35. This should be a fairly easy problem to fix: just scale up your object
  36. to the extent of the bevel and then bevel to the original size.  That
  37. way you're guaranteed your sharp corners wont cross themselves.
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  42. +  Michael Teper        | Member: TeamOS/2                              +
  43. +  nuvision@cmu.edu     | NuVision Technologies                         +
  44. +  mt3q@andrew.cmu.edu  |                    - The Vision of the Future +
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