> IMHO: the torus is a very basic shape, and consideration should be given to
> incl it in the next spec as one of the "basic" primitives...
>
> this will help authors express themselves more easily, and reduce the
> one-point-at-a-time overhead getting a vrml file, and it is a goodness to
> push this level of rendering detail out to the client...
>
Interesting. I don't agree with the usefulness for authoring.
Most model builders whill use authoring tools and never see the file. As
for the file compression issue, is there a way to define a torus and then
reuse it with different paramters in the current spec? I don't know the
spec well enough.
Omar