Polygon Table - Lets make tables =D

[probiner]

Like i said before, all kinds of ocupations have neat nerdy tables with cool info: good reminders and good for beginners to understand stuff, why not 3D modeling have them also?

I'll keep posting whatever i come out with. But if you got one yourself feel free to share

Cheers

[jason]

This is wicked, I will include this in the wiki.

Thanks so much!!

[probiner]

eheh no problem, its kinda hard to look at it at some point with so much information. But well, it's there...

Cheers

[patrick]

Cool, thank you for sharing this.

[HamSoles]

Good stuff - will be a great addition to the wiki.

[probiner]

i got a quick question for you guys.

I was thinking to go more into the pole stuff and do a neat table like this one to sinthetize some of the findings of Some Artist and others. But i don't know what to call to the poles. He calls it E and N. But its not standard or is it?
In this table i called them 3edge and 5edge, for numeric reasons. But like SomeArtist said if you talking about having "3 5EdgePoles in the same lane" it gets confusing.

So is there a "standard"? Something that makes sense its easly understood and easly put in a sentence...

[jason]

I'm with you, I didn't ever quite understand the E and N but I refer to the poles by edges. Instead, I refer to them as spokes, 3-spoke, 5-spoke... since it becomes more readily visualized. That's my 2cents.

Patrick started the port of the 'Pole' article to our wiki, so I would be interested in what you come up with and we could clean up this article to be better represented and standardize on the pole terminology:

http://wiki.nurbsandpolys.com/index....Artist_ThePole

[probiner]

You made me pick the dictionary to find spoke, ehehe. Seems a great one, the concept fills in good, altough there's might be a confusion for those like me (wich english is not first language) with speak/spoke verb.

Whatever i might do with this knowledge won't probably help with the name, altough i'll be researching and experiment, it will be more of a compilation.

We could take this chance and make a Pole therminology tryout
So..
3-Spoke/5-Spoke its on the stack
I think atleast the word Pole could remain.
Laugh at will, :P. I add:

-TriPole/PentaPole (says the number but the confusion about three 5poles is gone.)

- α AlphaPole(5)/ Ω OmegaPole(3) since in my perspective of Poles they are like the key cloth sewing points, where the mesh origins/opens and ends/closes.

Waiting for your fun suggestions

Cheers

[jason]

If you say 3-pole, then you have to treat it as a noun. So you wouldn't say as an example, "using spin edge on a 3-pole pole will.... " but instead " using spin edge on a 3-spoke pole will..."

I think it may depend on how literal you need to be. You may just say "using spin edge on a 3-pole will...".

as suggestions:

<number>-pole (i.e. 3-pole, 5-pole)
<number> spoke pole (i.e. 3-spoke pole, 5-spoke pole)
<number> point star (i.e 3 point star, 5 point star, obviously center point is ignored.)

[probiner]

Hmm so you stick with number.. ok