[sage-devel] Re: A triangulate method that produces quadrilaterals. Why ?

2017-01-12 Thread Frédéric Chapoton
Hello, I think this is more subtle than that. The procedure "triangulate" is used in several places, and sometimes it may generate triangles. When I wrote the old stl_ascii_string, I was lazy and did not care about faces other than triangles, even if I knew perfectly that they could happen. I h

[sage-devel] Re: A triangulate method that produces quadrilaterals. Why ?

2017-01-12 Thread ams
Hi. Thank you for the explanation. You can add me to the list of people telling : export to stl is definitely good to have! A On Thursday, January 12, 2017 at 7:25:50 PM UTC+1, Frédéric Chapoton wrote: > > Hello, > > I think this is more subtle than that. The procedure "triangulate" is used >