Re: [Closed REQ 5698]:

[munzner at weevil.Stanford.EDU]

>I only found a "SPHERE" command which draws a highly refined
>simplicial decomposition of the sphere, and I need 78 of these of very
>small diameter to represent the vertices.

>Since I do not need a highly refined simplicial decomposition of the
>sphere, is there a less CPU intensive way of representing vertices of
>such a figure?

The SPHERE object is a subclass of the BEZIER object. The refinement
level of these objects is user-controllable. The default is 10, the
lower limit is 2, which would draw SPHERE objects as octahedra. You
can change this number through the Patch Dicing input on the
Appearance panel at runtime. If you find a setting you like, you can
customize Geomview by putting a line like this:

 (dice allgeoms 2)

in a file in your home directory called ".geomview". Change the "2" to
be the number you'd like.

Tamara Munzner