[comp.graphics] Why is CSG dead?

whalen@DPW.COM (Rachel Whalen) (11/01/90)

In article <1990Oct26.000347.7455@agora.uucp> tima@agora.uucp (Tim Anderson) writes:
> . . . The only problem with Mortenson is that
>he spends so much time on Solid Geometry in the last section of the book.
>Though this is pretty interesting, for those of us in the real world CSG
>is DEAD DEAD DEAD.

Why has CSG bought the farm?  And what has replaced it as the solid
modeling method of choice?

(pardon my naivete - I'm just a curious beginner.)

Rachel Whalen
whalen@esquire