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The example you posted seems to be two squares, not one.  One square
is at [[1,1,1], [1,1,-1], [1,-1,-1], [1,-1,1]], and the other is the
same but with X=-1.  

The secret to understanding polytriangle strips is to realize that
vertices are doubled on either side of a "break" in the strip. This
creates two zero-area triangles (we call them "cobwebs") which are
culled in our renderer and ignored by many others.  If you wanted to
convert a polytriangle strip to disjoint triangles, you probably
want to skip over these zero-area triangles (easily identified by having
two of the vertices being identical).  Other than that, if the indexes
of the strip are [1,2,3,4,5,6], then the triangles are: [1,2,3], [2,3,4],
[3,4,5], [4,5,6]. I.e., there are N-2 triangles for a polytri strip 
of N vertices.

Does this help?
larryg

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