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Implementation of chord primitives - Peter Blomberg - 2025-08-07
16-sided chords come in two types; 1-8, 3-16, 1-4, 5-16, 3-8, 7-16, and 2-4 are made of mostly quads while 5-8, 3-4, 13-16, and 7-8 are made of only triangles. I get that the final triangle count is the same no matter how the triangles are organized.
Nevertheless, the triangle-only solution has a lot of narrow triangles and they are concentrated to the same area. Why is that? I would understand it if the chords were created additively (previous chord + one triangle = next chord), but they aren't.
Should we do something about it?