Shape Approximation using Spherical Quadric " like skin modifier "

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I think Nicholas need to see this maybe serve something to improve the skin modifier
home: http://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/~boubek/papers/SphereMeshes/

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Seems to do the opposite of what the skin modifier does. Could be a neat tool for auto-generating a rig for a character though.