C FACE 3440 C A FACE IS REPRESENTED BY THE SET OF VERTEX POINTS OF THE 3450 C POLYGONAL SURFACE PATCH, ORDERED BY STARTING WITH AN 3460 C ARBITRARY VERTEX, AND PROCEEDING POINT BY POINT AROUND 3470 C THE BOUNDARY UNTIL THE FIRST POINT IS REACHED. 3480 C 3490 C FACE LIST 3500 C THE LIST OF THE SET OF VERTEX NUMBERS, ORDERED AS ABOVE 3510 C FOR A FACE, IS CALLED A FACE LIST, WHICH IS THE DATA 3520 C REPRESENTATION OF A FACE. A FACE LIST HAS THE FORM 3530 C NSF,NA,NB,NC,...,NI,...,NA 3540 C WHERE NSF IS THE SURFACE NUMBER AND NA,NB,NC,NI ARE 3550 C VERTEX NUMBERS. NOTE THAT THE FACE LIST IS A CLOSED 3560 C LIST, STARTING AND ENDING WITH THE FIRST POINT SELECTED. 3570 C FOR ANY SURFACE WITH ONE OR MORE HOLES IN 3580 C IT, ANY INTERIOR BOUNDARY (HOLE) IS REPRESENTED BY A 3590 C FACE LIST WITH VERTICES ENUMERATED IN A SEQUENCE 3600 C OPPOSITE TO THAT GIVEN FOR AN EXTERIOR BOUNDARY. 3610 C " If one were to stand on the face with the left foot on the edge of the face and the right foot on the interior of the face and then traverse forward around the perimeter, vertices would be encountered in the required order." The vertices on any face are assumed to be coplanar. The faces are assumed to completely separate the interior from the exterior. No check is performed on either of these assumptions.
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