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Subject: Re: Rounded Box
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Date: Fri, 26 Aug 94 23:16:22 PDT
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>I am new to LW as is obvious by my question, but how can I get a box to have
>rounded corners?
That's a good question. One way is to make a SPHERE (!) with a
odd number of rings and divisions. With an odd number you always
have a flat section where you can stretch it into rectangular
solid with curved corners.
My knee-jerk reaction was to ask Stuart to put this in, but I just
realized this would be a pretty trivial AREXX macro. So trivial,
in fact, it may not be worth doing! :^)
>I have tried to take a disc and delete points to get one but it just never
>seems to be smooth enough when I render it out. I do have smoothing on and
>used a disc with 64 sides.
DELETING points won't do it-- you have to stretch the roundish
object. Very low numbers of points are necessary for an effective