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              <p><font color="#0000FF"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000CC">volume 
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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>
          Making it Count</font></p>
        <p align="RIGHT"><font color="#804000"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">By 
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        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Going back to arm 2, if you 
          look at the ‘after’ one it looks like there are some edges divided along 
          the right that could be extraneous. Well they’re there for what you’d 
          call ‘accommodation’. That is they accommodate the flexing of the arm 
          during animation.</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="images/fanmodel06.jpg" width="287" height="270"></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In the simplest of terms 
          if your model looks like this…</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="images/fanmodel07.jpg" width="300" height="193"></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">And doesn’t animate to look 
          like this…</font></p>
        <p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="images/fanmodel08.jpg" width="280" height="193"></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Then make it look like this…</font></p>
        <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="images/fanmodel09.jpg" width="279" height="179"></font></p>

        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Make every line count Grasshopper. 
          Oh, and have some very merry Holidays, too!</font></p>
        <p align="LEFT">&nbsp; </p>
        <p align="RIGHT"><i><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">- 
          Paul Steed is an incredibly opinionated 3D modeller for <a href="http://www.idsoftware.com">id 
          Software</a>.</font></i></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 
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