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        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0022A8"><b><a target="" href="../../corner/index.html"><font size="-1">Thinking 
          Outside the Box</font></a><font size="-1">:</font></b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="+3" color="#0022A8"><br>
          Exercise</font></p>
        <p align="right"><font color="#804000"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">By 
          Paul &quot;<a target="_self" href="mailto:paul@loonygames.com">Villam</a>&quot; 
          Steed</font></b></font></p>
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        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We just knocked 
          off 34 faces in about 3 minutes. WHOOHOO! We're cruising right along 
          but that narrow segment near the top of the body bugs me so lets simplify 
          it by some more vertex merging. And the back looks overly complex and 
          since it won't be seen too much by the player in the game, chop it up.</font></p>
        <p align="CENTER"><img src="images/totb9_22a.jpg" width="420" height="172"></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In the front 
          area of the body it's supposed to look like some sort of hard metal 
          holding edge but I bet we can merge those side vertices, leaving the 
          top alone and still get the impression of being hard metal. </font></p>
        <p align="CENTER"><img src="images/totb9_22.jpg" width="352" height="186"></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">So, weighing-in 
          at this corner we have a newly optimized body consisting of 68 faces. 
          We are just too good. Overall if we have three tentacles, two arms, 
          a dome and a body we have used 595 faces. This leaves us plenty to do 
          the guns and connecting hoses. </font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Speaking of 
          which… Wait a second. I just saw 2 faces that can be gotten rid of…See 

          these two? </font></p>
        <p align="CENTER"><img src="images/totb9_23.jpg" width="310" height="186"></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">…they're hidden 
          by the front plate of the body so they can go.</font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Alright. We're 
          nearly finished. Before we build the guns and tubes in the back let's 
          position the pieces to approximate the sketch better. We need to scale 
          the arms up a little and make the ends of the arms look knobbier. </font></p>
        <p align="CENTER"><img src="images/totb9_24.jpg" width="207" height="187"></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Close but the 
          lower arms need to be heavier-looking. And a little bigger…</font></p>
        <p align="CENTER"><img src="images/totb9_25.jpg" width="165" height="186"></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Good enough. 
          Let's build the guns.</font></p>
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      <p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2"> </font></i><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2"><b>Credits:</b> 
        Thinking Outside the Box logo illustrated and is &copy; 1998 Dan Zalkus. 
        Thinking Outside the Box is &copy; 1998 Paul Steed. All other content 
        is &copy; 1998 <a target="_self" href="http://www.loonyboi.com">loonyboi 
        productions</a>. Unauthorized reproduction is strictly prohibited, so 
        don't even try it. We've got really big guns, and we're ripped, baby.</font></i></p>
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