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#Weird Object

    25-Nov-92 14:37:02
Sb: #Weird Object
Fm: Mike Kelley 71302,73
To: yost group
>How did you create that pyramid geometry? Certainly NOT in 3D Studio? >Was it created in AME by any chance? I ask, because each of the faces of >the pyramid was DUPLICATED TWO TIMES and coplanar with each other. In >effect, there were two pyramids coincident with each other. HUH? That certainly answers my question, but raises another one. I created the object in 3DS by simply making a faceted cone (4 sides faceted) where the radius 2 was just a point — is this a no-no? (I HAD thought I was being particularly clever about not having to use the lofter to create this simple object). This isn't isolated — I've created what is undoubtably a similar object by making a faceted tube (3 sided) that exhibited similar bizarre tendancies. So I suspect that this kind of approach is NOT the recommended one, huh? And here I thought I could get around not using the lofter…