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    tris vs quads? —Ross Crawford
   I seem to recall this being discussed here before, but I can't find it. My question is, if I have a surface covered with a large number of triangles (eg output from txt2dat), is it better to leave it as triangles, or attempt to consolidate as many (...) (20 years ago, 2-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: tris vs quads? —Steve Bliss
   (...) It probably doesn't matter. Either way, the rendered image should look the same. Speedwise, most renderers won't care. In fact, I believe that some programs will split the quads back into triangles in order to render them. In terms of file (...) (20 years ago, 2-May-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 

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