hi I'm not sure my message was send correct !!! here is the 'renderman' rib file. ----------------------------------- # Starting polys PointsGeneralPolygons [1 1 1 1 1 1] [4 4 4 4 4 4] [ 0 4 5 1 1 5 6 2 2 6 7 3 3 7 4 0 3 0 1 2 4 7 6 5 ] "P" [ -0.5 -0.5 -0.5 0.5 -0.5 -0.5 0.5 -0.5 0.5 -0.5 -0.5 0.5 -0.5 0.5 -0.5 0.5 0.5 -0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 -0.5 0.5 0.5 ] # Starting curves # Done curves ------------------------------ and here is the code I like Perl to do for me. ------------------------------------------- -0.5 -0.5 -0.5 1 0.5 -0.5 -0.5 1 0.5 -0.5 0.5 1 -0.5 -0.5 0.5 1 -0.5 0.5 -0.5 1 0.5 0.5 -0.5 1 0.5 0.5 0.5 1 -0.5 0.5 0.5 1 Run 6 Poly 4 < 1 5 4 0 4 < 2 6 5 1 4 < 3 7 6 2 4 < 0 4 7 3 4 < 2 1 0 3 4 < 5 6 7 4 ------------------------------------- regards, Fredrik Gustafsson