<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div></div><div>I should point out that the two pieces of the cone are drawn by two different loops within the "faces=" part of the pst object.</div><div>The only difference between the two loops are the limits on "k", which counts the "levels" of faces (each is a conic fulcrum);</div><div>previous to that the "sommets=" part plots vertices all the way down. My counting skips the two middle levels, as the vertex</div><div>calculation leads to faces with two identical vertices, and I want to deal with the consequences of that later.</div><div><br></div><div>My problem is: the top cone has the "open cut" in one position while the bottom one has it on the opposite side, even though</div><div>the counting is identical for a given value of "k". Can anyone help me understand what is happening?<br><div><div>
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