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From: whalen@DPW.COM (Rachel Whalen)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Why is CSG dead? (Was: Trimmed Surfaces)
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Date: 1 Nov 90 10:54:24 GMT
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In article <1990Oct26.000347.7455@agora.uucp> tima@agora.uucp (Tim Anderson) writes:
> . . . The only problem with Mortenson is that
>he spends so much time on Solid Geometry in the last section of the book.
>Though this is pretty interesting, for those of us in the real world CSG
>is DEAD DEAD DEAD.

Why has CSG bought the farm?  And what has replaced it as the solid
modeling method of choice?

(pardon my naivete - I'm just a curious beginner.)

Rachel Whalen
whalen@esquire