Ron, >From looking at the source code for Sphere, the default seems to be 15. The source code for the com.sun.utils package comes in a tar file with the j3d download (I think). Hope this helps, -guillermo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ronald Van Iwaarden wrote: > On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, lining yang wrote: > > > > I am currently useing the sphere class to create a 3d earth using > > > a texture map and outlines of land masses. However, the sphere seems > > > fairly chunky and not nearly as smooth as I would like. Are there > > > things I can do to improve the look of the default sphere? > > > > Use Sphere(float radius, int primflags, int divisions, Appearance > > ap) constructor, and increase the divisions parameter. It will give > > you a smoother appearance. > > Thanks! It improved things greatly. Do you know what the default # of > divisions on a sphere is? > > --Ron > o The only thing worse \ Use the idle time of your computer > /\ than infinite \ and join the fastest computer on > _`\ `_<=== recursion is \ earth! > __(_)/_(_)___.-._ infinite recursion \ ** http://www.distributed.net ** > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
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