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From: andreess@mrlaxs.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: quad strips bugs ?
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Date: 30 Apr 91 01:23:09 GMT
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In article <80495@bu.edu.bu.edu> tjh@ouzo.bu.edu (Tim Hall) writes:
>In article <1991Apr29.141450.4737@Arco.COM> dprmjc@prism.ARCO.COM (M. J. Cole) writes:
>>  2) If you are using lighting on a Personal Iris DO NOT USE triangle meshes
>>     or quadrilateral strips (weird things will happen).  This has been
>>     a "known bug" for so long, I wonder why they don't put a notice in
>>     the manuals. :-)
>	Huh?  Whats the problem?  I use t-meshes on P.I.'s quite often
>and never noticed a problem.  (running 3.3.2)

Indeed... what is the problem?  (I know a number of people who are going
to be very surprised if there really is one...)

Marc

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