Wednesday, 20 January 2010

Polly Palava

Well yesterday was an interesting day.  I have reached a natural conclusion to the modelling and decided to sort out the smoothing groups.  This opened a massive can of worms.  Not ordinary garden worms but some mutated monster worms.  I collapsed all the symmetries and sorted all the smoothing groups out.  Feeling quite pleased with the result I suddenly noticed that my polly count had risen to 9222.  From where?  I had not even hit 8000 before I collapsed the symmetries but an increase of over 1000 pollies?  Apparently you don't get a true polly count whilst using symmetry.
Anyway, as this increase frustrated me I decided to revert to my primary save file that I started the day with and repeat the process but this time watching the polly count.  At the end this time the polly count was 8600.  Bizarre.
After a minor tantrum I decided that I was going to hit my self given polly limit of 8000 so began to remove unnecessary information.  I now have a 7986 polly count but don't know where the additional pollies came from.

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