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#Splines vs. Polys

    06-Jan-95 12:46:24
Fm: Michael S. Flynn 74551,142
To: Richard Clifton 100025,2103
Richard, I don't know how polygon-to-spline conversion works, but it appears that a point-to-point basis is used. I wonder if it would be practicle instead to do an Object A-to-Object B conversion of the surface that is represented by the points in a polygon model to the minimum number of points required to achieve the same surface in a spline model. If there was a conversion routine like that, I think it would accelerate the move from polygon modeling to spline modeling. Michael S. Flynn