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On 2012-11-11 10:30:35 +0000, Cecil Westerhof said:

> I found the shfill command with I can create gradients. Is there a good
> resource to get started? I could not find something that explains and show the
> things in layman's terms.

There's a very old Acumen Journal article, "A Taste of Smooth Shading," 
that you might find helpful. It's the November 2000 issue (issue number 
1!), free for the downloading at

	www.acumentraining.com/acumenjournal.html.

Hope that helps.

- J
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