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3-d Tesselation Tutorial

final frontbacklit

Here is my first attempt at a 3-d tess tutorial by pictures.  The first picture up top is the front and the second is the tesselation backlit.

1st precrease 32nds is a good idea. 

tutorial 1tut2tut3

Do step three on the other two sides.  Then you continue doing this, but not to the triangles next to it.  Look below and you can see the edges of which triangles to work on.

tut insert  Now you will work on the three triangles surrounding the central one.

tut5tut6tut7 

Now complete all the triangles not done before like above and you should have the tesselation that appears at the top of this post.