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From: koziol@yoyodyne.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Tesselating the sphere
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Date: 1 Mar 90 22:54:00 GMT
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I have been playing around with various 3-D objects and have come upon,
probably not for the first time, the fact that a dodecahedron might be the
best polyhedron to perform simulations on.  Dodecahedrons seem to lend 
themselves to this because they have six-sided faces which can be broken down
into six equilateral triangles, which themselves can be broken down with the 
quad-trees approach.  The benefit of this is that all the intersections have
six connections.  This would seem to eliminate the artifacts generated on
tetrahedron and octahedron surfaces.

	Quincey Koziol
	koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu