Artifacts

Hi people. I made these dice following a tutorial but each time that I created them I keep getting the strange artifacts around the dice. I split a sphere smooth it and then joined it to a cube that had been subdived and smoothed 5 times before I joined the meshes together and used shift-F for the faces. I thought I following the tutorial exactly, but each time I tried it, the same thing keeps happening. Any suggestions?

http://www.robsonindustries.net/images/DiceScene.JPG
Thanks

Mike

Your faces are not perfectly planar.

If you made the dices with the tut I’m thinking of you created the outline, then the points, then filled in.

The points rims and the face outline are not coplanar.

Steano

I created the dice using this tutorial

http://www.vrotvrot.com/xoom/tutorials/Die/dice.html

How could I have corrected it? You say the faces are not perfectly planar.

Does that mean when I hit shift-F the vertices on the sphere were not in line with the cube vertices? If so, what command is there to align two or more objects together?

Mike